Could anyone tell me what kind of cell this is?

Question

http://www.concord.org/~btinker/workbench_web/unitIV_revised/lipids/cell_diagram_lipid.jpeg

I know its a animal cell i just want to know if it is a like a skin cell or a fat cell.

Answer 1

well since it has microvilli its probably a cell that occurs in the small intestine, and the innermost layer of the small intestine, the tunica mucosa, is simple columnar epithelium which is a type of skin cell. A fat cell would have a huge vacoule full of lipids, and not much other things.

Ok for all the people that say its a fat cell because it says lipid, this is what a fat cell would look like crudely http://sportsci.org/encyc/adipose/Image1.gif
notice it has a large or a lot of small fat vacoules, no cilia and no microvilli, not to mention other organelles. Lipid could be referring to the cell membrane which is made up of lipids.

Answer 2

It is a eukaryotic cell.
But because it has a microvilli it is probably an epithelial cell.
It's ciliated too, here is a website with some ciliated epithelial cells
http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/video/cilia.html

A microvillus (usually not occurring alone, so usually referred to as the plural microvilli) is a small (0.08 µm in diameter, 1 µm long) extension of the cell surface of absorptive and secretory epithelial cells, such as kidney and intestinal cells. These structures increase the surface area of cells by approximately 600 fold (human), thus facilitating absorption and secretion. There are several thousand microvilli present on the apical surface of a single cell in human small intestinal cells.
Microvilli also occur in sensory cells of the inner ear (as stereocilia), in the cells of taste buds, and in olfactory receptor cells. They are observed on the plasma surface of eggs, aiding in the anchoring of sperm cells that have penetrated the extracellular coat of egg cells. Clustering of elongated microtubules around a sperm allows for it to be drawn closer and held firmly so fusion can occur. Microvilli are also of importance on the cell surface of white blood cells, as they aid in the migration of white blood cells.

Answer 3

It's obviously an animal cell. You can tell because your picture shows no cell wall.

Answer 4

That has got to be a fat cell because you see the word lipid and that means fat.

Answer 5

A eukaryotic cell because it has a nucleus

Answer 6

i think this is a cell seen in the small intestine because microvilli is shown.

Answer 7

in the address bar it says "lipids" and lipids are fats.

I'm going to say its a fat cell.

Answer 8

skin cell i studied this b4

Answer 9

eucaryotic
i believe it is a fat cell.

Answer 10

what about the cilium (the tail) isn't that for mobility......like sperm. But the microvilli definately means it's in the small intestine.