How is a plant cell like a cake?
How is a plant cell like a cake?
Chloroplasts. The chloroplasts are only found in plant cells and the chloroplasts for making a cake would be the energy needed to heat the oven to bake the cake batter into a cake, like the energy needed to make the cake the chloroplasts in a cell help create energy molecules needed for the cell.
How do you make edible plant cell cakes?
Instructions
- Make your cake according to package directions and let it cool.
- Spread green frosting over the entire cake.
- Place mini marshmallows around the entire perimeter of the cake.
- Place red licorice on the frosting, up against the row of marshmallows around the entire perimeter the cake.
How do you make an edible plant cell?
How to Make an Edible Cell Model
- Use food coloring to tint the icing so that you have one color to represent the cytoplasm, a second to represent the cell membrane, and a third to represent the nucleus.
- Place the candies on the cake to represent the cell’s organelles.
What part of the cell is like the cake?
The Golgi apparatus is known as the ″fruit by the foot.″ Cytoplasm is used as a cake icing. Sprinkles made of chloroplasts are green. Lysosomes are like jelly beans.
What candy looks like a cell membrane?
Suggested candy for an edible cell model: Pink Mike and Ikes = smooth endoplasmic reticulum. Air Head Bites = vacuoles. Air Heads Xtremes = rough endoplasmic reticulum. Sour gummy worms = Golgi apparatus.
What materials do you need to make a plant cell model?
Non-Edible Materials: Clay, styrofoam, beads, yarn, twine, dry noodles, dry beans, pipe cleaners, buttons, rubber bands, toothpicks, construction paper, cardboard.
What food looks like a ribosome?
cake sprinkles
| Cell Component | Suggested “Building Material” |
|---|---|
| Golgi Bodies | 2 blue or green pieces of fruit roll up |
| Endoplasmic Reticulum | 2 red or yellow pieces of fruit roll up |
| Ribosomes | 1 teaspoon of round cake sprinkles |
| Mitochondria | 4 hot tamale candies |
What candy looks like a Golgi apparatus?
Suggested candy for an edible cell model: Air Heads Xtremes = rough endoplasmic reticulum. Sour gummy worms = Golgi apparatus.