Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells can be compared to minifact

Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells can be compared to mini-factories, with multiple organelles working together to perform numerous cellular processes. After reviewing the parts of a eukaryotic or prokaryotic cell: Choose the organelle that you think is the most important for the cell and justify your selection, describing several key activities this organelle performs.

Indicate whether the organelle is in eukaryotic cells, prokaryotic cells, or both.

Which organelle do you think is the least important?

Why do you think it is more “expendable” to the cell?

Solution

The cell organelle that is most important for the cell is the nucleus.The key activities that the nucleus performs are:

The nucleus is organelle is present in eukaryotic cells only.

The least important organelle would be peroxisomes.

Peroxisomes is more expendable to the cell because the enzymes that are found in peroxisomes are also found in other parts of the cell.So, the function carried out by peroxisomes can be carried out by the enzymes in the cell.The peroxisomes are usually referred to as fossil organelles.