Plush Cell Model

Step 10 Ribosomes

Protein aggregates consisting of RNA and protein that carries out protein synthesis (translation).

• Using a embroidery thread make french knots along the outer edge of the rough endoplasmic reticulum.

French knots (see images below) are as follows:

• From the underside of the fabric pull the threaded needle through.
• Loop the thread around the needle twice.
• Poke the needle down through the fabric (not through the same hole).

Comments

[jgroenert]

This is the Ribisome  that  recenlty won the 2009 nobel prize for biology for researched Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England; Thomas A. Steitz of Yale University; and Ada E. Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.Now you can sew one!!

All the parts of a cell do very interesting jobs on a microscopic level.

[ChrysN]

That's really cool, they "demonstrated what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at an atomic level using a visualisation method called X-ray crystallography to map the position of each of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome". 

Maybe I should update my ribosomes to make them look more realistic.