Question of the Week No.2 (Biology)
During the exploration of the cell lesson, you come to the study of a very special organelle that is in charge of providing the necessary energy, in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), for the other organelles to carry out their necessary function. What is this organelle?
A) Ribosomes
B) Nucleus
C) Mitochondria
D) Golgi Apparatus
Explanation: Ribosomes are the sites (places) where protein synthesis occur. If you study biology or the biomedical sciences in college, your cell biology class will go further into this topic by describing the actual machinery that ribosomes play out.
The nucleus is that very special place in the cell that is in charge of storing the genetic information whose information will eventually be used to dictate the proteins that are to be produced by that given cell.
The Golgi Apparatus is nothing more than a processing/transportation/delivery system for proteins. Once the proteins are produced and come out of the ribosome location, they are still considered to be in a raw form. Thus, the Golgi Apparatus or Golgi body, is in charge of taking in these raw proteins, modifying them to make sure they are ready for use and provides vesicles wherein the proteins travel to their designated place of need.
The Mitochondria is the organelle that is responsible for providing energy that the cell needs, to carry out its energy-requiring processes. There is an entire process that dictates how this energy is produced, but again, this machinery is further elaborated on in a cell biology class.
