Not an empty bag
The cytoplasm is where most of the cell's work happens.
What is inside?
Between the cell membrane and the nucleus there is a space. A cell is not just a simple bag of liquid.
What do you think fills that space?
What this lesson covers
The idea
Cytoplasm contains the other components of the cell and compounds such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats and mineral salts; most life processes take place within it.
What is inside?
Between the cell membrane and the nucleus there is a space. A cell is not just a simple bag of liquid.
What do you think fills that space?
- Nothing: it is empty
- A filling with many useful things in it
- Only air
Find the filling
Read the clue and tap the part.
Where the work happens
The cytoplasm contains the other components of the cell and compounds such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats and mineral salts. Most life processes take place within it.
Notes
The cytoplasm holds the other components of the cell and compounds like carbohydrates, proteins, fats and mineral salts. Most life processes take place within it.
Check yourself
Where do most of a cell's life processes take place?
Which statement about the cytoplasm is right?
The cytoplasm has carbohydrates, proteins, fats and mineral salts. How many kinds of compounds are listed?
Answer: 4
Four: carbohydrates, proteins, fats and mineral salts.
- In the cytoplasm — correct. Yes. Most life processes take place within the cytoplasm.
- Only in the cell membrane. The membrane is the outer layer that lets materials in and waste out. Most life processes happen inside it, in the cytoplasm.
- Outside the cell. Life processes take place inside the cell, mostly in the cytoplasm.
- It is empty space.. It is full of things: other components of the cell and compounds.
- It has compounds such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats and mineral salts. — correct. Yes. These compounds are found in the cytoplasm.
- It is the outer layer of the cell.. The outer layer is the cell membrane. The cytoplasm fills the space inside it.