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The "Protector's Page




   Your task is to find at least two obstacles that might pose a danger to your rescue team and figure out how you will overcome these obstacles. Danger is lurking in various organelles and in molecules that might be attached to the membranes of the "ER". Follow the links on this page to help you in your task....




This is a diagram of a typical plant cell like you might find in an Elodea plant.  Take another look at the page that will become the "map" of your journey throught the cell by clicking on the plant cell above.
One of the organelles not shown in the  
 plant cell diagram to the left is the
  lysosome . It may be useful to you.  Other
 lysosome sites:  

  The endoplasmic reticulum, also known as the ER, is a vast network of membranes
 that might have either catabolic or anabolic enzymes
embedded in them.


 The plant's central vacuole might contain
 various poisons or storage crystals
.

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