1. How is a Cell like a Restaurant?

2. Cell Wall: Walls of a the Restaurant
The walls of a restaurant give the building structure and support just like the cell wall gives the plant protection and support.

3. Chloroplasts: Solar Panels in some “Green” Restaurants
Chloroplasts use the sunlight to make energy for the plant by making glucose, like a solar panel uses energy from the sun for your electricity.

4. Cell Membrane: Restaurant Door
The Restaurant door is the way in and out of the building like the cell membrane is the way in and out of the cell for only certain customers.

5. Cytoplasm: The dining area
The cytoplasm is the jelly-like material inside the cell where the organelles are, like the dining room containing the tables and chairs are where the people sit.

6. Nucleus: Chef
The chef gives directions for the cooks to make the food, like the nucleus gives directions in the cell to make proteins.

7. DNA: Recipe
The recipe gives instructions for how to make the dishes in the restaurant, just like DNA gives instructions in the cell for how to make proteins.

8. Protein: Food
The food in the restaurant is made using the instructions in the recipe, just like the protein is made in the cell by using the instructions given by the DNA in the nucleus.

9. Mitochondria: Oven
The oven for the restaurant releases energy to cook the food, just like the mitochondria releases the energy for cells to use.

10. Vacuole: Freezer/Walk- in
The vacuole is for storing food and mainly water and is larger for a plant cell since they cannot get up and get a drink.

11. How do the parts work to make the whole cell function smoothly?