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Lilgreenmonster
07-12-2010, 21:08
I have a project due in a few days

I was going to compare a robot's parts to the organelles of a cell....im just having a really hard time organizing which components i should use to compare the organelles...

These are the organelles i have to use....

Chloroplast
endoplasmic reticulum
Golgi apparatus
mitochondria
vacuole
nucleus
centriole
lysosome
nucleolus
ribosome

Thanks Guys!

Basel A
07-12-2010, 22:18
This is a rather tough fit..

Ribosomes would certainly be motors.
But then the nucleolus isn't exactly clear unless it's AndyMark :P
Nucleus is the "programming center," I'd go with the cRIO
Vacuole holds the materials, so I'd go with battery
Golgi could be the end effector (the final shooter/ball handler)
You could call the ER the power-distribution board..
Things like the centriole, nucleolus, and lysosomes don't have very good direct parallels...

Frenchie461
04-01-2011, 18:11
since lysosomes are there to kill the cell if anything goes wrong, they could be the one bolt that kills the bot when it falls out :D