Cell project

This is my cell project. It was a very fun project to work on. I had to use my imagination to figure out what to use and ended up using a variety of different items that I already had around the house. I used a bowl for the plasma membrane and then filled it with playdoh for the cytoplasm.

Here are the supplies that I used.

The bowl is the plasma membrane.


This is about half way through.

Here is the finished product.

Here is another view of the finished product.

Here is a list of products and what they were used as:

• Bowl - plasma membrane which regulates what comes in and what goes out in the cell.
• Red playdoh - cytoplasma
• Purple playdoh and the seed - nucleus is where the DNA is found.
• Straws - rough er synthesis proteins.
• Noodles - golgi apparatus sorts the proteins and lipids and packages them in the vesicles.
• Mini eggs candies - mitochondria
• Push pins - lysosomes break down substances that entering the vesicles.
• Paperclips - microtubles help maintain shape and help with movement during cell division.
• Red paper - actin filaments also help with cell movement.
• Black yarn - intermediate filaments
• Blue straws - centrioles (centersome)
• Eraser - vesicle takes lipids and proteins to the golgi.
• Fish food - smooth er synthesis lipids.
• Yellow playdoh - ribosome and polyribosome

I picked these items because I thought they looked similar to what they actually looked like in the text. The hardest part for me was trying to figure out what to use for the nucleus, my cytoplasm kept trying to cave in but I finally got it to work.


The next few pictures are DNA and the process of splitting and duplicating.

Model of a DNA strand.

DNA strand as it starts to split.

The original DNA strand and after it has duplicated.

This is my mini interpretation of the duplication process. Of course there is a lot more to it, but this is what I see as the summary of it.