Organelle Picture Description Function

Whiplike motile Moves

cellular extensions in substances
cilia
large numbers on across cells
surface of cells surface

Projections formed
Propels a cell
flagella by centrioles, longer
itself (sperm)
than cilia

Control center,
contains
instructions
Compared to a needed to build
computer. Cells only bodys proteins
nucleus
have one nucleus and dictates
typically kinds and
amounts of
proteins to be
synthesized
Works well in
places that
Studded with produce blood
ribosomes and the proteins and
rough ER proteins on the makes proteins
ribosomes go into the and
ER phospholipids
that make up cell
membranes
smooth ER Continues with rough Metabolize
ER and is tubules in a lipids, synthesize
looping network cholesterole and
phospholipids
and synthesize
steroid based
hormones,
detoxify drugs,
breaks down
stored glycogen
 stores calcium
ions

Site of protein
synthesis. Attach
Small dark granules
and detach from
ribosomes made of proteins are
ER membranes
RNA’s
and make
proteins

“traffic
director” for
cellular proteins.
Modifies,
Stacked and flattened
concentrates,
membranous sacs with
golgi complex and packages the
swarms of tiny
proteins and
membranous vesicles.
lipids made in
rough ER and
exports from the
cell

Digest almost
all biological
molecules, used
Spherical membranes in metabolic
lysosomes containing digestive functions and
enzymes break down
bone to release
calcium ions into
blood

Detoxification,
Spherical
energy
membranous sacs
metabolism by
peroxisomes containing powerful
breaking down
enzymes. Numerous in
and synthesizing
liver and kidney cells
fatty acids

mitochondria Threadlike Power plant of

membranous cell, provides
organelles. Squirm, most of ATP
elongate, and change supply.
shape in living cells
 Generating
Small barrel shaped microtubules
organelle oriented at and organizing
centrioles
right angles to the mitotic
eachother spindle in cell
division

Cell motility or
Thinnest element of changing cells
the cytoskeleton, shape by psuhing
microfilaments
semiflexible strands of or pulling on
the protein actin plasma
membrane

Largest diameter,
Determine the
hollow tubes make of
shape of the cell
spherical protein
microtubules and distribution
subunits. From small
of cellular
region of cytoplasm
organelles
near the nucleus