Start your Engines🚨, or should I say Start your Mitochondria🦠, and may the fastest Cell Win! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Yes, you read that right! Using Canva, and a few editing apps, I was able to piece together and create a digital artwork about the Cell by metaphorically describing it as a vehicle. My analogy is that, the Cell works like a Vehicle or a Car.

They are similar in a way that even when traveling at high speeds, a car’s metal body keeps its shape. Its body is similar to a Cell Wall, or Cell Skeleton in terms of structure. The windshield and windows are similar to Plasma/Cell membranes in that they protect the interior of the car from intruders such as insects and dirt. Cars require power to drive, which occurs when gasoline is converted to energy in the engine, similar to how Mitochondria create ATP. In a cell, the Endoplasmic Reticulum assists in material transport; in an automobile, the fuel line transports fuel from the gas tank to the engine.

Additionally, the Nucleus of a cell is analogous to the driver of an automobile. The car will not move if the driver does not press the gas pedal. The driver’s intention to go to the engine is communicated through the gas pedal, just like a Ribosome does with information from the Nucleus. When an engine burns fuel, it produces exhaust, which travels through a catalytic converter before exiting the car to make the emissions less damaging to the environment. The Golgi Apparatus, like the catalytic converter, does its own type of material packaging for transport. Vacuoles in cells, like the trunk and glove compartment of a car, serve as storage places.

Interesting right! Thank you!

My Perspective of the Cell – Google Drive

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O_MLhzTLSpUMdyFLqNE8gvyDSbbLq_54/view?usp=sharing

My Perspective of the Cell – Google Drive