SCHOOL : REBOKON NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL WEEK 5

SUBJECT : SCIENCE 7

QUARTER : 2

TEACHER: PEDELYN O. LIGAN

MELCS : Explain why the cell is considered the basic structural and functional unit of all

organisms.

Content Standard: Demonstrate the understanding of the difference between animal and plant cells.

Performance Standard: Employ appropriate techniques using the compound microscope to gather data
about very small objects.

I. OBJECTIVE:

At the end of the module, you are expected to:

1. Explain that a cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms;

and

2. Compare the functions of the different organelles of a cell and the different

administrative components of a city

II. SUBJECT MATTER Topic: Cell: The Basic Structural and Functional Unit of All Organisms

III. Learning Resources

A. Materials: Chalk, Blackboard, PicturesB.

B. References: Grade 7 Science Learner’s Module

IV. PROCEDURE

A. Preliminary Activity
B. DRILL|ELICIT
 Let the students recall what you have learned from the previous module.
How do you think
people study the
smallest organism such as
bacteria?
Activity 1: Decoding a SECRET MESSAGE

Answer

EAT VEGETABLES, DRINK PLENTY OF WATER, HAVE ENOUGH SLEEP, AND

TAKE NONACIDIC VITAMIN E DAILY TO BOOST YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM, AND

DO THE BASIC HEALTH PROTOCOLS.

1. Why is it important for us to do these things? – Extended Abstract

C. ENGAGE
Let the students’ do the picture analysis by analyzing the missing parts in the picture.
 D. EXPLORE
Explore the background of the Cell Theory

 cell was first introduced by Robert Hooke in 1665.

 In 1838, Mathias Schleiden, a German Botanist concluded that plant tissues are made of cells

 1839, Theodor Schwann, a German Zoologist concluded that animal tissues are made of cells.

 In 1855, Rudolph Virchow, another German scientist, a pathologist who concluded that new
cells form from preexisting cells.

 1880, August Weisman, another German Biologist, he concluded that the ancestry of all cells
alive today can be traced back to ancient times.

C. ELABORATE

Cell Structures

 Organelles cell can be thought of as a mini-organism consisting of tiny organs.

Cell Membrane

 outer boundary of the cell.

 differentially permeable.

Cytoplasm

 composed of organic and inorganic materials.

 organic compounds consist of proteins, fats or lipids, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids.

 inorganic compound such as water

 Nucleus

 regulates and coordinates all the activities of the cell.

  Suspended in the nucleoplasm is the nucleolus (plural, nucleoli) which is composed of
ribonucleic acid (RNA) and protein molecules.

 It is the site where the subunits of ribosomes are formed

 chromatin (chromo – color; teino – stretch) material which is composed of deoxyribonucleic

acid (DNA) and protein molecules

 genes are DNA molecules consist of sequences of nucleotides

Cell Wall

 provides tensile strength and protection against mechanical and osmotic stress

Organelles in the Cytoplasm

Mitochondria

 sites of aerobic respiration

 main carrier of the energy in the cells

 The following are the functions of mitochondria:

 a. Mitochondria affect health and aging by leaking electrons.

 b. important role in programmed cell death called apoptosis.

2. Ribosomes

 are the sites for the production of proteins in the cell.

 Some ribosomes are bound or attached to the endoplasmic reticulum and some are
suspended (free) from it.

 Bound ribosomes make secretory proteins while free ribosomes produce proteins that are
localized in the cytosol.

 Enzymes are molecules that accelerate the thousands of different chemical reactions that take
place in an organism.

 Proteins are the most multipurpose macromolecules (long-chained biological molecules) in the
cell.

3. Cytoplasmic system

 is a network of pathways

a. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)

 transport of lipids and membrane proteins.

 Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (RER) and the Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (SER).

 RER is engaged in protein synthesis. The following are the functions of SER:
a.1. It is usually a site for fat metabolism

a.2. It manufactures steroid hormones

a.3. serves as a major detoxification site.

b. Golgi apparatus

 Modify, sort, and pack macromolecules for secretion.

 produce extracellular polysaccharides

c. Lysosome

 “digestive sac”

 destruction or repair of defective parts of the cell

d. Peroxisome

 convert certain organic molecules

 into hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), or commercially known as ‘agua oxinada’

 enzyme that converts H2O2 into water (H20) and oxygen (O2) and is safely used by living cells.

 glyoxysomes (specialized peroxisomes) convert fatty acids into sugars needed by the growing
seedlings.

e. Vacuole

 storage of water or food, while others are for the excretion of waste materials.

 intracellular digestive, space-filling, and control of cell turgor.

 It is important for maintaining homeostasis

 plays a significant role in plant growth and development.

4. Special organelles

a. Centrioles

 formation of the spindle fibers (the structure which brings about the movement of
chromosomes during cell division).

b. Cytoskeleton

 provides the cell’s structural supports and is responsible for cell shape and motility.

c. Plastid

 found in plant and photosynthetic protists.

 It serves as a storage container of pigments and starch molecules.

 manufacturing of essential amino acids and the enzymes that catalyst

E. EVALUATE
 Let the students answer the questions
Introduction
“Cells are the basic living units of organization and function in all organisms”. Our city is
not so different from the cell at all. If you pay attention to these details, you will notice
their similarities.
Objective
At the end of the activity, you are expected to compare the functional components of
the cell and the city.
Directions
1. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
2. In column 2, write the function of the part in the city mentioned in column 1.
3. In column 3, write the structure/organelle in the cell that resembles this function.
 INGRID DACUNO
HEAD TEACHER 1

ASSESSMENT 3

Draw a plant and animal cell and label it’s part.

INGRID DACUNO
HEAD TEACHER 1

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