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CELL CITY ANALOGY

Carefully read the paragraph below and answer the following exercises.
In a faraway city called Light City, the main export and production
product is the steel widget. Everyone in the city has something to do with the
steel widget making and the entire town is designed to build and export
widgets. The city hall has the instruction for widget making. Widgets come in all
shapes and sizes and any citizen of Light City can get the instructions and
begin their own widgets. Widgets are generally produced in small stores around
the city. These small stores can be built by the construction engineer’s union
(whose headquarters are in the city 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 charts 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 turned to the scrap yard where
they are broken down for parts or destroyed altogether. The city powers the
widget shops and carts from hydraulic dam. The entire city is enclosed by a
large wooden fence. Only the postal trucks and citizens with proper documents
are allowed inside the city.

Match the parts of the city (underlined) with the part of the cell.
1. Nucleus - _____ City Hall ______________________________________
2. Nucleolus - ___ small stores______________________________________
3. Mitochondria - ___hydraulic dam___________________________________
4. Cell membrane - __fence_________________________________
5. Ribosomes - ___special carts_____________________________________
6. Lysosomes - _____scrap yard___________________________________
7. Protein - __Widget_________________________________________
8. Endoplasmic reticulum - ___constructions engrs union________________
9. Golgi apparatus - ____Postal Office______________________________