NUCLEUS

• KEY FEATURES OF THE NUCLEUS?

  Nuclear envelope

  Nuclear pores

  Nucleoplasm

  Chromosomes

  Nucleolus
• WHAT IS THE NUCLEAR ENVELOPE?

  double membrane
• WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE NUCLEUS?

  site of DNA replication and transcription (making mRNA) therefore it contains genetic code
• WHAT IS THE NUCLEOPLASM?

  granular, jelly-like material
• WHAT ARE CHROMOSOMES?

  protein-bound, linear DNA
• WHAT IS THE NUCLEOLUS?

  smaller sphere inside nucleus
• WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE NUCLEOLUS?

  site of rRNA production and makes ribosomes