Edible Plant Cell

By Morgan Doverspike, Emma White, Maria Pascuzzo, and Maddy Haverilla

By Emma

Cell Picture

Cell Wall

Cell Wall

• The cell wall, which in a plant is made of cellulose, gives the cell structure and protects the cell.

• We used a cookie cake as the cell wall because we decided that we could shape a cookie easily enough into a rectangle.

By: Morgan Doverspike

Plasma Membrane

Plasma Membrane

• The plasma membrane, which is made of phospho-lipids, controls what goes in and out of the cell.

• For the plasma membrane we used gummy worms to represent it because we knew we would be able to wrap the gummy worms around the edge of the iced area of the cell. By: Morgan Doverspike

Cytoplasm

The cytoplasm is a fluid that fills the cell and holds the organelles in place. Like the cytoplasm of a cell, the icing is doing the same job which is holding all the candy and fruit in place of the cookie cake.

CytoplasmBy Emma

Chloroplast

Chloroplast

• The chloroplast converts the sun’s rays into energy that the cell uses.

• We used the grapes to represent the chloroplast because they are green and similar in size and shape.

By: Morgan Doverspike

By Emma Nuclear Membrane

Nuclear membrane

The nuclear membrane is a physical barrier that separates the nucleus and the cytoplasm. We used the outside of a snowball because it is protecting the inside of the snowball (nucleus) from the icing (cytoplasm).

Nucleus

• The nucleus is the control center of the cell and contains the DNA.• We used the inside of the snowball to represent the nucleus because

the snowball did a good job of representing all parts of the nucleus in shape and size.

By: Morgan Doverspike

Nucleus

Chromatin

Chromatin

We used blueberries for our chromatins because they’re small and they’re on the Nucleus. Chromatins

organize structures of the DNA.

By: Maria Pascuzzo

Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum

Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum

We used twizzlers and sprinkles because they look like the rough endoplasmic reticulum. The rough endoplasmic reticulum are

involved in synthesis of proteins and is also a membrane factory for the cell.

By: Maria Pascuzzo

Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum

Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum

We used twizzlers for the Smooth Endoplasmic reticulum because it looks very similar to the actual smooth endoplasmic reticulum. The smooth endoplasmic reticulum is involved in the synthesis of lipids,

including oils, metabolism of carbohydrates, and regulation of calcium.

By: Maria Pascuzzo

Vacuole

Vacuole

By: Maria Pascuzzo

We used a pear as our cell vacuole because it’s big like a vacuole. The vacuole of the cell

stores water and other nutrients.

By: Maria Pascuzzo

Golgi Apparatus

Golgi Apparatus

The Golgi Apparatus groups lipids and proteins and packages them into vesicles. We used fruit by the foot as it because it gives the illusion that its tangled together.

By Emma