Hi, today I´m going to write about cells.
Personally, I don´t think it´d cause me much damage, since, according to my mom, I only use like five percent of my brain capacity.
But you know what I mean.
I need to mention that today the Lord has smiled upon you.
Let´s assume we already know what the cell is (but if not: it´s the basic unit of life, i.e. the smallest *living* thing you can find)
It can come in various shapes:
- circular (adipose tissue/fat cells)
- biconcave or dyscocyte (RBC - red blood cell)
- amoeboid (WBC - white blood cell, leukocyte)
- oval head, long tail (sperm)
- long, narrow, almost rectangular (columnar epithelium)
- long, stretched, branched (nerve cells)
I never thought English is more exhausting than right now.
I wanted to write that the whole point of this was just to declare that nevertheless they’ve various shapes, their structure is the same, but sincerely...what kind of person would I be if I’d do that?
There’s like no way all of these jaw-breaker adjectives serve solely for that purpose!
Yeah, that’s exactly what I thought.
But the teacher told us to write exactly that sentence, word to word and I just had to groan in frustration and obediently note this conclusion and everything that follows.
It’s not my fault, I swear.
However, let´s move on to the basic cell structures:
First, we have the cell wall.
In plant cells, it separates the cell from it´s enviroment and it also serves to support/protect them - it´s a stiff, rigid and permeable structure that surrounds the cell membrane - but only can be found in plant cells.
Well, yeah, and mushroom cells and in prokaryotic cells as well.
In plant cells, it contains carbohydrates - polysaccharides - like pectin, lignin and cellulose.
In mushrooms, it contains another polysaccharid instead - chitin.
Now we´ve pretty much covered the surface of the cells.
Sorry, whatever it is, I meant the nicer word, but reading mainly historical fiction, I´m not really sure which one to use.
Also, thank you so much again.
I feel terribly guilty for leaving this sort of unfinished, but I guess l have a bigger fish to fry - namely getting these facts straight in my native language for the test.
It´s a pity, because I kind of enjoy being this nerdy (using double the usual capacity of my brain isn´t as hard, when your starting point is set low.)
But let´s list the organelles:
-Cytoplasm
-Ribosome
-Nucleus
-Endoplasmic Reticule
-Golgi Body
- Mitochordria
- Chloroplast
-Vacuole
-Lysosome
If you´d like, I´ve got like ten pages of text I can slowly translate later to get real specific with each of these bodies (can organelle be called a body?), but now I gotta go...the time flies way too quickly, if you ask me.
Especially with an exam around the corner.
January 2023
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