The+Cell+Inside+the+Star+Sand

These children of the stars were born in the ocean just of Okinawa, but were killed by a giant serpent. Their tiny skeletons are all that remains.
[|Star Sand]
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test of softer calcium carbonate would crumble.
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much deeper in the ocean where the pressure on its shell is greater.
|| //Sorites Orbiculus// ||
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//Calcarina gaudichaudii// ||

the structure of thegrains on this foram look like forams themselves...
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case through holes in the spines.
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Star sand harvests microscopic diatoms. Like plants diatoms contain chloroplasts which turn sunlight into food. Star sand collects diatoms

more easily catch the sunlight and turn it into food.
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[|Foraminfera to colour]
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An organsm is divided into pieces called cells. Cells are tiny compartments which hold all the biological equipment needed to keep an organism alive and successful.
====The main job of a cell is to organize its organelles to do their jobs. Because forams have only a single cell they can't grow very big. [|More about Cells]====

Discover how it works...
[|Explore a Cell] || [|Colour a Cell]
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[|Colour a Foram Cell] || Play the Cell Game - In the Allen Centre ||   || ==Cell Game Printables:==



**Print the pieces to make your own game**
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Cell Game Number 2....
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Escape the Cell
Follow Keziah and Ginny as they make Cell Game Number 2. 4 players throw the dice to race their kinesins along the microtubules criss-crossing through the cytoplasm to the other side of the cell. No matter what number they get on the dice, they must stop on the red stickers to get more energy to transport food to all the organelles.
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Painting the cytoplasm...
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Explaining the job of the kinesins in the cell to Mrs Nyhof...
|| Microtubules with red energy points complete... ||
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points in the cell wall... kinesins in place at the Start...
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Final details...
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kinesin must complete the throw by moving backwards.
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