In Oulu, Finland a scientist by the name of George S. Fizzler was starting his new experiment. His new experiment dealt with shrinking things and seeing how other things looked like when shrunken down. This week he was shrinking a submarine so he could go into a living organisms cell. He was very fascinated with how the body worked and how cells work their “magic”. In order to do this experiment he is going to need some help from his friend Gary Bangelshrine and his cat Misty.
Gary and George had all the preparations made and done now all they needed was for Misty to eat them while they were still small. They had a time limit on how long they could be in the body before they would be trapped inside the cat forever. George and Gray had the submarine already to go and had the cat food placed into the right position. When everything was set up they called Misty to come and eat. Misty had just eaten them and now they were inside the cat looking at everything that was happening while she was eating.
George and Gary were in awe at how well this experiment was going. After all the other “cite seeing” they had done they decided it was time to go look into the cell. They had entered this very tiny, tiny cell that you can barley see with a microscope, but being shrunken down to its size they could see it just clearly. George had just navigated the way through the Cell Membrane. As they went through they noticed how it was a very thin layer of protein that had surrounded the cell.
It would only allow some of the substances to pass in and would block the other, so they had to disguise themselves so it would let them in. As they made it into the cell wall they had notice this liquid inside the cell that was watery that they clearly knew that it was the cytoplasm and it was located right out by the nucleus. George and Gary quickly made their way to the nucleus, as they only had a few short hours before they needed to be out so they wouldn’t be stuck in Misty forever.
The Nucleus is the control center for the cell it controls where the genetic information also known as DNA (Chromosomes) is located. The nucleus is surrounded by the nuclear membrane, which controls what enters and exits the nucleus. As George and Gary go through the nucleus they notice it controls many of the functions of the cell by controlling the protein in it. The farther they go into the Nucleus, the Nucleolus is the within in the nucleus it’s the organelle that produces the ribosomes that are within Misty. It’s also where RNA is produced and many other cells have more than just one nucleolus.
With what information they have so far over the cell itself they plan on hosting an assembly to many High School students and teachers across the globe and giving them their information they have gathered and collected. The only way to get out of the cell is to go through the Golgi body but they make a quick stop by the vacuole. The vacuole is the storage sack for mainly water and other materials, but it works as a membrane cavity inside the cell. The vacuole begins to fill with food and that is being digested and other waste materials that are on its way out of the cell.
Gary and George are making time very well and figured it wouldn’t hurt to stop by the Mitochondria. They both are astonished on how it really works and would love to tell people all about it. As they approach the mitochondria they are starstruck. It’s just like how they pictured it the unusual organelle. The mitochondria acts like the power plant of the entire cell. It’s the site of all cellular respiration where the energy or better known as ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is released from all the energy that was stored from foods into the cell.
The mitochondrion is folded into many places like a double membrane called the cristae, which is the inner membrane. The outer membrane is called the matrix. If it was up to the two scientist they wish they could stay in the cell forever but sadly they have to come out so they can explain to others what they have seen so they have others gain the knowledge they have doing this experiment. As George and Gary are slowly leaving the mitochondria they run into some familiar small organelles.
Those small little organelles are Ribosomes! Ribosomes are from the rRNA, which is made up of a variety of proteins inside the cell. As they move away from the friendly ribosomes they enter this windy strand called the Endoplasmic Reticulum or better known as the (ER) which is in the cytoplasm. With the ER though it has two types, one being the Smooth ER and the other Rough ER is two are complete different. Smooth ER does not contain any ribosomes but carries materials throughout the cell. Rough is covered with ribosomes giving it the rough appearance as they see it going by slowly.
It also transports the materials through the cell that need to be which are then sent to the Golgi body. Golgi body or better known as the Golgi Apparatus, looks kind of like a stack of pancakes to the two scientist it’s located around the nucleus. The Golgi is the packaging for many of the things that the ER transports it their. The Golgi from there exports things from the cell. This is where the scientist know that their journey into the cell has to come to an end and they need to go back and write down what they have seen and what data they have collected from their learning journey.
