How to Use organelle in a Sentence

organelle

noun
Definition of organellenext
  • The stain makes puddles around the organelle, Rome explains.
    — Betsy Hanson, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The organelles are key to a cell’s growth and metabolism.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • And one of the questions is ‘A person says the nucleus is the most important organelle in the cell.
    — Hannah Grossman, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Within yourself, your organelles and proteins and genes have stuff to do.
    — National Geographic, 29 Jan. 2017
  • Both the shaft and the filament are inside out and neatly folded into the tiny organelle.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2022
  • In those with Batten, a defect occurs in the lysosomes, cell organelles that remove cell waste.
    — Cindy Sutter, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2017
  • Each organelle serves a certain purpose in order for the cells, and overall organism, to function.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The light starts the machines spinning, and that rotational motion pushes them to drill through and puncture the cell’s membranes and organelles, which results in cell death.
    — Ana L. Santos, The Conversation, 26 May 2023
  • This mimicked the way the protein naturally folds bit by bit as it is produced in the cell, by a protein-making organelle called a ribosome.
    — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2015
  • Nigel uses wit, whimsy, and humor to depict the various roles of organelles that create balance within a cell.
    — Science, Science Magazine, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Those components, or organelles, characterize cells of the third branch, the eukaryotes.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Mirco 11 will study how the space influences the shape of this organelle, the behavior of which is of keen interest to fertility specialists.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 16 July 2018
  • Somehow the organelles will gravitate almost magically to the injured cells that need them and take up residence.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • Tiny organelles, called mitochondria, exist inside living cells and have their own DNA.
    — Virginia Gewin, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The healthy female organelles help form IVF embryos without the diseased mitochondria.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2023
  • In this case, because lots of ATP must be produced over extended periods of time, the muscle cells rely on their organelles called mitochondria.
    — Joshua Selsby, CNN, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Mitochondria are organelles that contain their own DNA.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 July 2017
  • However, four were absent from 30% to 40% of the organelles, suggesting that those ribosomes were distinctive.
    — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2017
  • Mitochondria, the little organelles found in the cells of almost every living thing, need oxygen to produce energy.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Chloroplasts, the organelles that host photosynthesis, have their own DNA, including a gene for D1, and most biologists assumed the protein had to be made there.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Further tests confirmed it — there was no mitochondrial genome at all, and hence no chance of the organism functioning the way researchers had expected, although there did seem to be a loose sac that might once have been the organelle.
    — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Mitochondria are cellular organelles that contain their own DNA and are best known as the cell’s energy producers.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 July 2017
  • In this environment are specialized compartments known as organelles that carry out the cell’s functions.
    — Justin Quiles, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The new organelle had never stood out because it is made almost entirely of proteins, and the stains that render things visible under an electron microscope don’t stick well to proteins.
    — Betsy Hanson, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • In contrast to eukaryotes, which all have a suite of organelles in common, different groups of prokaryotes showcase their own specialized compartments.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
  • During the process, free radicals and singlet oxygen are also formed and can inflict damage on cellular membranes, organelles, and proteins.
    — Lindsey Murray, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2017
  • For years, vision scientists couldn’t make sense of this odd placement of these organelles — after all, most cells have their mitochondria hugging their center organelle, the nucleus.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
  • For years, vision scientists couldn’t make sense of this odd placement of these organelles — after all, most cells have their mitochondria hugging their center organelle, the nucleus.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
  • A technique called ribosome profiling enabled them to pinpoint which mRNAs the organelles were reading—and thus determine their end products.
    — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2017
  • This new study found that these bubbles have mRNA molecules that attack important cellular processes in the mold cells, including the functions of organelles.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2023

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