Don't Be Alone! Vote For The RIBOSOME!
I am found in ALL types of cells - prokaryotic, eukaryotic, plant AND animal cells!
My job is to produce the PROTEINS within the cell.
These proteins are necessary for performing a vast variety of tasks within and around the cell, such as:
- Fighting viruses.
- Providing structural support for the cell.
- Growth.
- Moving substances inside and outside of the cell.
- Reproduction.
- Metabolizing.
- Creating DNA.
- Division of cells.
AND MANY MORE!
Without me and my proteins, cells would not be able to function or survive.
Life would not exist without me!
40% PROTEIN, 60% RNA, 100% WORTH YOUR VOTE!
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| There I am! I appear to be just a series of small dots, yet I am actually working away to produce proteins and keep you alive! It's a 24/7 job! |
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ReplyDeleteMy organelle provides your ribosome the place it needs to work in peace - a place to live. How would the proteins you produce get to where they needed to go? Where would your proteins go to fold properly? Is there even a wonder why ribosomes attach to my organelle? This is because the proteins your organelle synthesises require a proper place to be both edited and carried to their destination, the Golgi Body. In fact, many of the proteins you manufacture stay in my organelle to help in the synthesis of lipids, steroids, and other hormones that are required. Even certain enzymes from my organelle are important and vital to life - such as the enzyme that catalyses the breakdown of alcohol.
ReplyDeleteThe Endoplasmic Reticulum is truly king.
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ReplyDeleteWoah, stop it right there. To start off, you have to thank the rough endoplasmic reticulum. Without it, the ribosomes would have no place to be! They attach onto the endoplasmic reticulum and they manufacture them for us. Also, the ribosomes might be important, but none of this would be possible without the rough endoplasmic reticulum. For example, you mentioned fighting viruses, providing structural support for the cell and growth. You should thank the endoplasmic reticulum for its help! Lastly, without the endoplasmic reticulum, the ribosomes wouldn't be able to make synthesis to create proteins! They need the endoplasmic reticulum!
ReplyDelete-Endoplasmic Reticulum (AKA "The Delivery Buds")
"Without it, the ribosomes would have no place to be!" Have you forgotten that ribosomes also exist outside the rough endoplasmic reticulum in the cytoplasm? Also,"They attach onto the endoplasmic reticulum and they manufacture them for us." What replaces the variable,"them" in this sentence?
DeleteHey, nice to see you there, E.R.! You bring up some interesting facts there, but I must say that I, the ribosomes, am an independently functioning organelle! The ribosomes complete the process of creating proteins all on our own. The endoplasmic reticulum is merely an alternate location for us to situate ourselves.
ReplyDeleteNice try, but the ribosomes truly take the cake on this one!
See you in the cell!
- The Ribosomes
Alternate location? Have you forgotten that the proteins from ribosomes are moved and transported on from the ribosome throughout the cell? You may be able to produce proteins on your own - truly amazing processes - yet useless if these proteins can't get to where they need to go.
DeleteYours truly,
Endoplasmic Reticulum