Cellular life

You wouldn’t think that’s it’s just about DNA, now, would you?

Here is an amazing animation from Harvard University showing some of the processes involved in having a white blood cell move and react to a source of inflammation.

http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/anim_innerlife_hi.html

There is a lot of talk that may leave you stumped so here just a few pointers:

• Cytosol - Internal fluid of the cell
• Lipids - Check out the link, to be honest I am not quite sure but it seems like lipids play the role of structuring
• Proteins - so essential I can’t really think of any single phrase on those.
• Ribosomes - aid in building e.g. proteins
• Endoplasmatic Reticulum performs protein and lipid synthesis and transportation.
• Golgi Apparatus modifies, sorts, and packages macromolecules created in the cell e.g. for secretion to the outside.
• Mitochondrion the cell’s energy plants
• Vesicles - Compartments made of lipid layer(s) that allow to transport stuff (like waste etc.) around the cell
• Centrosome - functions within the internal structure and movement of a cell and seems to be involved in cell division