what does a nucleus in a white blood cell do?

Question

im doing a science project and cant figure out what the neuclues does?

Answer 1

The nucleus tells the white blood cell how to fight infection and to gobble up foreign (?invading) material/organisms in the body.

It does this by housing the cell's DNA

The DNA in the WBC is specially geared to make WBC proteins and enzymes. These include:

o Surface receptors for detecting foreign material

o Antibodies to attack foreign material (for some types of WBC - B cells)

o Enzymes and phagosomes, and instructions to engulf foreign material and digest it with enzymes (macrophages and neutrophils)

o Instructions on making signalling proteins to rev up the rest of the immune system (T cells)

The instructions come out of the nucleus and are made in the cell cytoplasm.

Answer 2

For the simple answer, DNA allows a cell to make protein. There are lots of proteins that do complicated functions, but I don't know if its necessary for you to know all of them. But the protein that's most prominent is called the "anti-body." It responds to an invader called the "anti-gen" (antibody generator) and basically serves as a tracking device (tell white cells where bad things are), gather-up task force (rounds up the bad things), and some attack the antigen (virus, bacteria, etc.) themselves. These proteins need to come from somewhere; they come from the nucleus of the white blood cells, which transcribe and translate (two big words to describe protein synthesis) DNA code into protein. Thus, the nucleus makes antibodies, which are proteins that attack foreign invaders of the body.

Answer 3

The nucleus is where the dna is kept, to reproduce the cell.

Yeah, the protein thingie too, how could I forget?!