EMILIO AGUINALDO COLLEGE – CAVITE

SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE

General Histology and Embryology

Course Code: DHE1 21

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Laboratory Exercise No. 1 – Cell

I. Draw the basic functional unit of the body and label its parts. (18 pts.)
II. Complete the table. (22 pts)

Cell Function Structure

Part

1. Nucleus
Store the cell’s Dna, control Sphere-shaped organelle
center of the cell.

2. Ribosomes
Formation of the Peptide bonds Flattened and Spherical
and decoding the message.

3. Endoplasmic
Reticulum Transport of proteins, synthesis, Pancake in shape
folding and modification.

4. Golgi Apparatus
Responsible for Transporting, Five to Eight cup-shaped
modifying, packaging proteins and
lipids into vesicles for delivery to
targeted destinations.

5. Lysosome
The digestion and waste removal It resembles small
for cells, food particles, bacteria, vacuoles.
etc. and it degrade or break down
macromolecules.

6. Peroxisomes
The Organelles that sequester It usually spherical but
diverse oxidative reaction and they can change their
play important roles in shape and be elongated.
metabolism, reactive oxygen
species detoxification, and
signaling.
7. Mitochondria
Involved in releasing energy Rod-shaped, ovoid, or
from food. Referred to as the thread-like, scattered
powerhouses of the cell. minute particles

8. Cytoskeleton
It helps modulating the shape of Resembles a double
the cell and internal Helix.
organization, and it also provides
mechanical support that enables
cells to carry out essential
function like division and
movement.

9. Flagella, Cilia
It aid in cellular locomotion and Helically shaped and a
Enables movement and Slender threadlike
chemotaxis. projection.

10. Centrosome
It regulates cell motility, adhesion Contains two cylindrical
and polarity in interphase, and structures called
facilitates the organization of the centrioles.
spindle poles during mitosis.

11. Cell Membrane

It regulates the transport of Intrinsically flat and
materials entering and exiting the Planar Morphology.
cell.
III. Draw and label the phases of cell division. (10 pts)