How to Build Your Own Cell

How to Build Your Own Cell5 How to Build Your Own Cell Any creativity in the field of science and technology can be best understood and focused on a model design or a science project. Building a cell becomes more added in value if the same can be made on three dimensional or 3D frames. This is because such a model can yield better understanding to the concepts related to any living organism.

A cell model on a 3D dais can be design and made following relatively easy steps. Few of such effective steps are mentioned below: -

Purchase from any stationary shop some Styrofoam (a kind of plastic, aromatic polymer used for packing the biodegradable products) balls of any size. Normally the color of this material is snow white and a little spongy in nature. They are also very light in weight and also can create suffocation if by mistake made to swallow a portion of it.
Cut a potion in L-shaped manner from this ball. Use a blade or a penknife to serve this purpose. But make sure you mark the desired length using a marker or a dark shaded pencil.
Using a sprayer or oil paint brush color the outer layer of this Styrofoam ball in brown. The brown color will make a representation of the cell membrane (the covering of the cell)
Next step is to color by covering the inner base thick portion of the Styrofoam ball with red clay or pink paints. This color will by default denote the cytoplasm of the cell (portion of the cell structure which is enfolded within the membrane of the cell) which is relatively thick.
Now just at the centre of the semicircular base of the Styrofoam ball, make a round shape using a marker. The circumference of this small circle should be distinctly small as compared to the whole area that it bounds. Color it in purple to make a resemblance of the nucleus present in a cell. Chop a small portion from the exact centre of this colored path transversely to give a more realistic 3D look.
To make the nucleus make another ball and color it in green. Design and create the mitochondria (cell constituent) using a string or thick thread colored in blue. Give a zigzag pattern with the string to represent the boundaries of the mitochondria. Similarly create another such piece and cover it over the top of the present one. Keep an eye as both the half sized ball should be equal in size.
For the lysosomes you can use seeds of green pea and place it strategically on the surface of the pink patch. Go for twisted threads or strings colored in yellow for shaping the structure of endoplasmic reticulum. But make oval shaped or bean shaped structure out of the Styrofoam ball to depict the shape of the Golgi bodies and color in orange. Lysosomes, Golgi bodies and endoplasmic reticulum are the cell constituents.

Materials required: -

Pen/marker
Colors
Sprayer/paint brush
Pea seeds
Twisted threads/strings
Styrofoam balls
Penknife/blade

This completes the entire steps to be followed while building your own cell in a 3D shaped model. But make sure that each layer of color coat needs to be dried completely before you applying the next one.