How to Make a Three-Dimensional Eukaryotic Cell
- 1). Form a cylinder of clay 3 inches high by 4 inches in diameter. Use only one color of clay for this shape.
- 2). Look at the cylinder from above and draw a line, beginning from the edge of the circular base and reaching its center. Starting from the center, make a perpendicular line -- forming a right angle with the first line -- and extend it to the circle's edge. Cut out the cylinder's part falling between these lines.
- 3). Form a small cylinder, measuring 1 inch in height and 1 inch in diameter, to form the nucleus. Cut its quadrant using the method described above. Form a smaller sphere for the nucleolus, using another color of clay, and press it gently on the nucleus's right angle.
- 4). Place the complete nucleus shape on the cell's right angle, pressing it gently to keep its position. Form two or three small spheres -- half the size of the nucleolus -- and scatter them around the nucleus to depict the lysosomes.
- 5). Make similar spheres to the lysosomes, but using another color of clay, to form ribosomes. Form four long -- twice the diameter of the ribosomes -- but extremely thin pieces of clay. Place them one next to each other to form the Golgi complex.
- 6). Create a more complicated series of thin clay pieces, combining short and long pieces, to form the smooth endoplasmic reticulum. Make two or three shoe-like shapes, double the size of the ribosomes, to create mitochondria.
- 7). Form two balls double the size of ribosomes, to create the centrioles. Also create balls smaller than ribosomes and push them gently against the large cylinder's surface -- not inside the quadrant -- to depict vesicles.
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