Plant Cell Factory
Have you ever seen the inside of the plant cell factory? Well, then this is your lucky day.
This is a tour guide for candy lovers. I will be explaining to you guys how a plant cell factory is
like a regular factory.
To kick off our factory tour, you can see that the cell wall is like a rigid outer fence of a
factory because it has a rigid outer boundary and we can also tell that it has an entrance and exit
because that is what a factory has for a fence. A cell membrane is similar to a factory wall
because it has an outer boundary with an entrance and exit for the cell wall. Along with the fact
that the cell membrane can regulate the substances that can enter and exit the cell wall. From
there we can see the nucleus. The nucleus is like the boss that takes care of the workers that are
working in the factory. The nucleus directs the cell workers, such as pushing them to get their
work done on time, making sure all items are in the right order, and crossing the t’s and dotting
the I’s. From there we meet the chromatin. This is the place where we uncoiled the bundles of
DNA which are the genetic materials of the cell. This here is the spot where we can see each and
every item in a single line of each item, sort of like a blueprint to the factory, where each spot is
for. So far when you came on this tour guide, you had seen the main entrance and exit to the
factory, the check-in guide, the manager who is running the factory and scope the layout of the
place.
Next, we will look at the enormous power of the cell that takes to move from one place to
another. What I mean by power is how much power can it take to make nothing to something.
Well, let's get the power on. There are two parts of power that we are talking about, the first
would be the mitochondrion or power generator. Here the generator produces the energy needed
for cellular process. What this does it takes its own energy from the factory and makes more
energy so that it can give it more power. The second power of energy is the chloroplast or solar-
power generator. This comes from high in the sky, a place where photosynthesis occurs. It uses
the sun’s energy to produce more energy, or as you might say food, for the plant which contains
chlorophyll. When we have enough energy, we have to make something and that is called the
ribosome. This is the production machine, what this does is make the protein according to the
genetic instruction. So in this section, I have talked to you about the enormous amount of energy
it takes and makes it into something.
The last but not the least amount would be the spacing, the packaging, and storing. Just
like any other factory, you need an enormous amount of space, and that space is called the
cytoplasm. It is a jelly-like substance, consisting mostly of water, which is the medium through
which materials pass inside the cell. When moving materials inside an enormous amount of
space, you would need conveyor belts to move them faster. Our conveyor belts are called the
endoplasmic reticulum or er for short. It is a system of channels that move materials around the
cell. After you move the items through the conveyor belts, you move on to what you would
vacuole. This is the place where a membrane-enclosed box that stores food, water, and other
materials. After storing the items, when you need to shipped the items, you would go to the
Golgi bodies, the packaging department. The packaged proteins are ready for transport and used
outside of the cell wall. Sometimes, when space, storage, and packaging are bad or broken then
they would go to the recycling and maintenance center, which is called the lysosome. In this
spot, you would see the lysosome helps maintain and repair the cell structures, digest wastes and
worn out parts.
There you have it, folks. The factory that can see from the beginning, like who is the
runners of the factory, who is the manager on duty to tell all what they need to do and get to see
that everything is on time. Then you got to see the enormous amount of energy, and the
productions of the factory. From the productions, you got to see the storage, packaging, shipping
of the contents of the cell, and whatnot. If you would like to know more about our factory please
stop by again, but now please exit at the right.
