A Wild Kratts Cell-Tacular Adventure

Into the Cell

Disclaimer : I don't own Wild Kratts the YouTube video above is what I used to help me study and learn about the animal cell and I don't own the video

"Sounds like a fun extremely mini adventure mission," Martin said with glee while playfully elbowing Chris.

"Here goes," Aviva said as she say down at the controls.  After posting a few buttons her invention started covering the sub with a curtain of mist.  She steered the sub towards the cell and went right through the cell membrane.

"Increíble," Aviva said in awe of the cell. They soon located the strange glowing thing that Aviva had spotted earlier.

"What do you think it is?" Martin asked.

"Only one way to find out." answered Chris, taking out his creaturepod he scanned the glowing trail "according to this it's a chemical signal that tells the cell to do something; the question is what this chemical signal is telling the cell to do?"

"If we follow it we might find out," Aviva replied. With that said Aviva steered the sub so it followed the same path as the chemical signal they followed it all the way to the very middle of the cell.

"What is that?" Aviva asked while motioning towards the sphere in the middle of the cell.

"That's the nucleus" Chris answered "it controls the cell, think of it as the base of operations or the brain." Aviva nodded signaling that she understood.

"Look the chemical signal goes inside the nucleus!" Martin said.

"Then lets follow it," Aviva stated. She steered the ship directly into the nucleus. Immediately after entering the nucleus they were surrounded by double helix shaped things.

"We're surrounded by DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid it's the building blocks of life DNA holds all the secrets to life it's like a giant instruction manual stating which illnesses you are weak to defend against, if your born supper flexible, what colour your eyes are, what colour your hair is, if you have any mutations or disabilities and things like that," Aviva explained recognizing the pattern from inventing creature power disks "the thing that looks like half of DNA is RNA or ribonucleic acid it serves as a messenger since DNA now has the message the chemical signal was sending it's its copied and made it into a small molecule which you now know is RNA, is going to deliver the message." The brothers looked at her absorbing the information like a sponge.

"Look the RNA is leaving through a hole in the nucleus," Chris said while pointing.

"That's a nuclear pore if RNA is going through it then it must mean that it's ready to pass on the message," Martin concluded.

"But what was the message?" Aviva wondered out loud "let's send the scan to Koki while we follow RNA she might be able to figure it out." About five seconds later Koki's face popped up on screen.

"The chemical signals was a signal for the cell to make protein," Koki informed.

"Thanks Koki," all three of them said at the same time. RNA didn't have to travel very far before it reached its destination.

"What is that?" Chris questioned.

"That's the ribosome," Koki explained "the ribosome makes the protein which is a chain of smaller links of amino acids." They watched as the ribosome made the protein then out came the chain of amino acids only to enter the ER or endoplasmic reticulum.

"The protein just entered the endoplasmic reticulum," Aviva said in surprise.

"Let's go in after it," Martin suggested. But before Aviva could move the sub towards the endoplasmic reticulum is started to get covered in another layer.

"What on earth..." Aviva trailed off shocked at what she just saw.

"AWESOME! The endoplasmic reticulum just got a vesicle." Chris said in excitement, "a vesicle is a cellular organelle that is composed of lipid bilayer basically it's an envelope for the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi body and other things transporting them to other areas of the cell."

"Okay... then let's follow the endoplasmic reticulum vesicle," Martin corrected his earlier suggestion.

"Sounds good MK," Aviva agreed and changed course slightly so they were tailing the organelle. They soon stopped at another organelle.

"That's the Golgi body, Golgi apparatus or Golgi complex its job is to package things like lipids and proteins so they're ready to be transported out of the cell," Martin explained. Once the protein was packaged another vesicle formed only this time it was on the Golgi apparatus. The three creature adventurers followed the Golgi complex vesicle to the cell membrane. They watch entranced as it attached itself to the cell membrane and released the protein outside.

"So, now we know how protein is made," Aviva concluded " first a chemical signal is made stating that a protein needs to be made and what kind, then the DNA decodes the message and sends it to RNA, when RNA receives the message it leaves through a nuclear pore, RNA gives the message to the ribosome, the ribosome makes the protein, the protein enters the endoplasmic reticulum then the endoplasmic reticulum gets put into a vesicle and moved to the Golgi body, the Golgi body re packages it gets put into a vesicle then is transported to the cell membrane where it releases the proteins out of the cell."

"Yep that sums it all up," Chris agreed.

"Yeah that was one awesome extremely mini adventure," Martin stated.

"Agreed, so who wants to try out the creature power disks I just made?" Aviva asked.

"Creature power disks?" both brothers asked unaware that she had made a new one.

"Yep, you boys get to have a go at making protein I have two ribosome creature power disks ready to go."

"Awesome thanks Aviva!" both boys called over their shoulders after receiving the disks as they left the sub so they could activate their new creature power disks.

And that's a wrap keep on creature adventuring we'll see you on the creature trail!

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