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Discussion Post: Cell City Analogy 

Cell City Analogy

In a far away city called Grant City, the main export and production product is the steel  widget. Everyone in the town has something to do with steel widget making and the entire town is designed to build and export widgets. The  town hall has the instructions for widget making, widgets come in all shapes and sizes and any citizen of Grant can get the instructions and begin making their own widgets. Widgets are generally produced in  small shops around the city, these small shops can be built by the  carpenter's union (whose headquarters are in town hall).

After the widget is constructed, they are placed on  special carts which can deliver the widget anywhere in the city. In order for a widget to be exported, the carts take the widget to the postal office, where the widgets are packaged and labeled for export. Sometimes widgets don't turn out right, and the "rejects" are sent to the  scrap yard where they are broken down for parts or destroyed altogether. The town powers the widget shops and carts from a  hydraulic dam that is in the city. The entire city is enclosed within a large wooden  fence, only the postal trucks (and citizens with proper passports) are allowed outside the city.

From http://www.csub.edu/eap-riap

 

1. Read the Cell City Analogy. Notice how each underline word represents a part of the cell. For example, the widgets represents the protein, the town hall represents the nucleus of a cell, and the small shops represent the ribosomes. 

2. Use a different model to create your own analogy of a cell, such as a school, an office, a recording studio, cell phone, etc. You are limited only by your own imagination.  Write and post a paragraph  that describes your model. Please include AT LEAST 5 complete sentences that describes all the organelles/structures (mitochondria, ribosomes, nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, protein, cell membrane, etc.) in your model. 

3. Respond to one other peer on their model (For full credit). You can comment on how an organelle that they did not mention can function in their model, etc. 

4. For an extra bonus point, provide a hand-drawn picture of your model  and upload it with the labeled parts (including the cell part it refers to).