Cell's R Us Blog Post

    In our Honors Biology class we were each assigned an organelle of a cell to create a blown up replica of it for a giant cell created by our teacher, Mrs. Lawrence.  Sitting inside the giant cell that used to be our classroom we provided descriptions of the organelles we all recreated.  I created a 180 by 260 centimeter Central Vacuole.  It stores water and other materials the cell needs.
   Since the Central Vacuole is only found in plant cells I am assuming that the cell Mrs. Lawrence made was a plant cell.
   My organelle, the Central Vacuole was by far the largest, while the ribosomes were the smallest.
   If you were to look at a cell under a microscope you probably wouldn't have any trouble seeing the Central Vacuole!
I was very surprised by how small the other vacuoles were compared to the Central Vacuole!  Being relatively similar to each other, I had assumed that the other vacuoles would be almost as big as the Central Vacuole.




Here is a picture of a Central Vacuole: