My sister is making an edible animal cell for her science class and she needs my help, it would be great if i could find edible versions (i.e. m&ms, skittles, prezels) of the: rough endoplasmc reticulum, smooth endoplasmis reticulum, nucleus, nucleos, mitochondrion, cytoskeleton, lysosomes, golgi bodies, cell membrane, and ribosomes. please help me her project is due thursday and we need to get started today!!!
2007-02-18 07:39:52 · 2 answers · asked by Madi 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Make a round cake and decorate it with various candies to represent the organelles. Then cut me a slice--hehe
2007-02-18 08:03:21 · answer #1 · answered by michelle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a science teacher and did this with my classes all the time. We made a large flat container of jello (green for plant and clear for animal) and then suspended the parts in it. We used things like large jawbreakers or gumballs for the nucleus, nerds for ribosomes, shoestring licorice for endoplasmic reticulum. For the nucleolus, some kids cut part of the gumball and put a smaller one inside. The container represented the membrane. Just go to a bulk candy store and look around.
Good luck!
2007-02-18 07:46:31 · answer #2 · answered by Cathy K 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋