Vacuoles- Structure, Types and Functions A vacuole is a membrane-bound organelle which is present in all plant and fungal cells and some protist, animal and bacterial cells. The most conspicuous compartment in most plant
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Category: Cell Biology
Plastids- Types, Structure and Functions
Plastids- Types, Structure and Functions Plastid is a double membrane bound organelle involved in the synthesis and storage of food, commonly found within the cells of
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Microfilaments- Structure and Functions
Microfilaments- Structure and Functions Microfilaments, also called actin filaments, are polymers of the protein actin that are part of a
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Ribosomes- Structure and Functions
Ribosomes- Structure and Functions The ribosome word is derived – ‘ribo’ from ribonucleic acid and ‘somes’ from the Greek word ‘soma’ which means ‘body’.
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Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)- Structure, Types, Functions
Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)- Structure, Types, Functions Within the cytoplasm of most animal cells is an extensive network (reticulum) of membrane-limited
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Nucleus- Structure and Functions
Nucleus- Structure and Functions The cell nucleus is a membrane bound structure that contains the cell’s hereditary information and controls
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Centrioles- Structure and Functions
Centrioles- Structure and Functions Eukaryotic cells contain two cylindrical, rod-shaped, microtubular structures, called centrioles, near the nucleus. They lack a
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Cytoskeleton
Cytoskeleton The cytosol of cells contains fibres that help to maintain cell shape and mobility and that probably provide anchoring
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Chloroplasts- Structure and Functions
Chloroplasts- Structure and Functions The word chloroplastis derived from the Greek words chloros, which means green, and plastes, which means “the one who
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Cytoplasm- Structure, Components, Properties, Functions
Cytoplasm- Structure, Components, Properties, Functions Cytoplasm is the semi-viscous ground substance of the cell. All the volume of such substance
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