What is a cell
Right now your body is doing a million things at once. It’s sending … See more

Right now your body is doing a million things at once. It’s sending electrical impulses, pumping blood, filtering urine, digesting food, making protein, storing fat, and that’s j… See more

An organelle (think of it as a cell’s internal organ) is a membrane bound structure found within a cell. Just like cells have membranes to hold everything in, these mini-organ… See more

Our DNA has the blueprints for every protein in our body, all packaged into a neat double helix. The processes to transform DNA into proteins are known as transcriptio… See more

Within the nucleus is a small subspace known as the nucleolus. It is not bound by a membrane, so it is not an organelle. This space forms near the part of DNA with instruction… See more

Endoplasmic means inside (endo) the cytoplasm (plasm). Reticulum comes from the Latin word for net. Basically, an endoplasmic reticulum is a plasma membrane … See more