TEAM NILLA WAFER’S EDIBLE ANIMAL CELLThe yummiest way to learn about cells!

CELL MEMBRANE

We decided to put multiple twizzlers around the outside of our cake to resemble the cell membrane because it acted almost as a barrier to the outside of the cell.

The cell membrane’s function is to protect the organelles inside the cell against everything outside of the cell, also helps to provide shape of the cell

Meghen Young

NUCLEUS

We used the candy dots as our nucleus We used the dots because it structurally represents the

membrane around the nucleolus The function of this organelle is to be in charge of all

cellular activity, controls enzymes in the cell

Adam Milliron

MITOCHONDRIA

We used sour gummy worms to represent this organelle Structurally we designed the sour gummy worms to look

like the mitochondria in the cell The function is to provide energy to the cell by releasing

ADP which is the stored energy

Joe Whitman

GOLGI APPARATUS

The peach rings were used in this project as this organelle

We put three peach rings on top of each other to try to make them look like the golgi apparatus

The function of this organelle is to produce the ATP, and helps with the cells metabolism

John Matthews

ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM We used the candy of nerd rope as our rough

endoplasmic reticulum We thought it was a good idea to use the nerd rope since

we used the candy nerds as our ribosomes, and the rough endoplasmic reticulum is covered in ribosomes

The function of the rough endoplasmic reticulum is to transport things to different parts of the cell

Joe Whitman

SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM Our group used regular gummy worms to represent the

smooth endoplasmic reticulum We put multiple gummy worms together to make it

structurally look like this organelle The function of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum is to

provide carbohydrate and lipid synthesis

Meghen Young

RIBOSOMES

The nerds candy were used to represent this organelle They are tiny little dots all around the cell and we thought

that the nerds would look like the ribosomes The function of these tiny organelles are to perform

protein synthesis

Adam Milliron

VACUOLES

Our group accidentally ate our cake before we took a picture of the vacuole so we drew our vacuoles

The drawings are placed around the cell in the places where the vacuoles should be, and we think they seem to have about the same type of structure

The function of the vacuoles are to store materials such as water, sugars and sap

John Matthews

NUCLEAR MEMBRANE

For the nuclear membrane we drew it as our nuclear membrane was eaten before a picture was captured

The drawing is the about the same structurally as the nuclear membrane in a cell

The nuclear membranes function in the cell is to decide what enters and leaves the nucleus

Meghen Young

CYTOPLASM

The cytoplasm for our cake in this project was the frosting The frosting’s function is the same as the cytoplasm’s in

the cell and this is why we picked it to represent this particular organelle

The cytoplasm’s function is to hold all the cells in place so they are not bouncing around and hitting the cell membrane

Joe Whitman

LYSOSOMES

We decided to use skittles to represent the lysosomes The skittles are structurally like the lysosomes, so we find

them to be similar The function of the lysosomes are to break down and

clean the cell by using enzymes

Adam Milliron

CYTOSKELETON

The object we used to represent the cytoskeleton in this project was the cake itself

The cake and cytoskeleton share a common function and this is why we picked it to represent it

The cytoskeleton’s function is to provide support and give the cell its shape which the cake does as well

John Matthews

NUCLEOLUS

The gobstopper candy was used in this project to represent the nucleolus

We used this because we thought that structurally they could be similar and the way we designed the nucleus it worked as being the center

The function of this particular organelle is to assemble ribosomes

Adam Milliron

CHROMATIN

Our group used pieces of tootsie rolls to represent the chromatin

We sliced thin pieces of the tootsie rolls to look stringy so that they would seem to have the same appearance

Main functions of the chromatin are to form chromosomes and to store DNA

Joe Whitman

OVERALL FINISHED EDIBLE ANIMAL CELL

John Matthews and Meghen Young

BY JOE WHITMAN, MEGHEN YOUNG, JOHN MATTHEWS, AND ADAM MILLIRON