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Animal Cell Cell Membrane

Animal Cell Cell Membrane

Animal Cell Cell Membrane

U.S. President Thomas Jefferson said, “If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”

First Lady Michelle Obama in 2010 started promoting her “Let’s Move” campaign as a way to reduce childhood obesity rates. Since then, she’s been criticized for consuming buffalo wings, spare ribs, and hamburgers, even though a fast and healthy way to lose weight is through an all-meat/fat diet, derived from organic/grass-fed livestock.

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Animal Cell Cytoplasm

Animal Cell Cytoplasm

Animal Cell Cytoplasm

Endoplasmic reticulum

Endoplasmic reticulum structure

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a type of organelle inside a cell. ER is a network of fluid-filled tubes. There are two types of ER, rough and smooth. A cell may have both or only one, depending on its function.

• Rough ER is joined to the nuclear membrane. Its external surface is studded with ribosomes (organelles involved with protein formation).

• Smooth ER is continuous with rough ER but has no ribosomes.

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