Cells

• Sperm cell job


  fertilise egg cell
• Sperm cell adaptation


  -Tail helps it swim to egg

  -Head contains genetic fertilisation material

  -Middle packed with mitochondria-energy
• Nerve cell job


  send messages from brain to body
• Nerve cell adaption


  -Has extension branches to communicate further

  -Covered in fatty sheath to insulate
• Root hair cell job

  To store/collect water and nutrients
• Root hair cell adaptation


  -Large vacuole

  -Increased surface area

  -Long extension to collect water
• Muscle cell job 


  responsible to contract and relax parts of body
• Muscle cell adaption


  -contain mitochondria to provide energy

  -filament of protein that slide over each other for contraction
• Ciliated cell job 


  Small hairs to move bacteria away (wafters)
• Ciliated cell adaption


  -muceus in nose, lungs, oviduct
• Egg cell job 


  Needed for reproduction
• Egg cell adaptation 


  -Lots of mitochondria>energy+respiration

  -1/2 chromosomes from mum
• Red blood cell job

  carry oxygen
• Red blood cell adaption


  -no nucleus>flexible
• White blood cell job 


  to engluf, digest, destroy pathogens
• White blood cell adaption

  -produce antibodies+antitoxins

  -stop getting ill