How it works
Cell in bubble letters on one sideways sheet in Fredoka: four letters, so they print tall. Labels for the parts of a cell model or poster wait in the row under the sheet.
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Labels for a cell model
Plant / Cell or Animal / Cell heads the poster, Organelles its key, and these parts have a sheet each: Nucleus, Nucleolus, Cytoplasm, Cytoskeleton, Cell / Membrane, Mitochondria, Golgi / Body, Lysosome and Vacuole, with Cell / Wall and Chloroplast for a plant. Bacteria, cells with no nucleus, head a poster of their own.
Ribosome, protein and the endoplasmic reticulum
A Ribosome builds Protein, which is made of long chains of amino acids. The rough endoplasmic reticulum is studded with ribosomes; the Smooth / Endoplasmic / Reticulum has none. Both labels stack on three lines, which prints them about 1.6 times as tall as the same words typed with no line breaks.
- Mitochondria and Bacteria are plurals: one is a mitochondrion, one a bacterium.
- In Fredoka, Cell / Wall prints tallest of the labels after Cell itself; Cytoskeleton and Mitochondria, twelve letters each, print smallest.
- No font of the six keeps the e of Cell white in the Bubble look; in Fredoka, set Look to Outline and it opens.
Questions and answers
How do you draw cell in bubble letters?
Pencil C, e, l, l with wide gaps. Round every stroke into a fat outline, leave a small slit inside the e and keep the two l's the same height, then rub out the pencil and color.
What is the difference between a plant cell and an animal cell?
A plant cell has a cell wall outside its membrane, and chloroplasts, which carry out photosynthesis. An animal cell has no cell wall. Lysosomes are found in animal cells and only rarely in plant cells.
What does the smooth endoplasmic reticulum do?
It makes lipids and steroid hormones and takes part in detoxification. Unlike the rough kind, it carries no ribosomes. Endoplasmic means inside the cytoplasm; reticulum is Latin for a small net.
Why is it called a cell?
From the Latin cellula, small room. The name was given in 1665 to the small enclosures seen in a thin slice of cork under a microscope, which looked like the cells of a monastery.
Why are mitochondria called the powerhouse of the cell?
Because they use aerobic respiration to make ATP, the chemical energy source the whole cell runs on. Powerhouse of the cell is their popular nickname.