Cells: Science Posters & Charts
teaching resources for the science classroom and home schoolers.

Cell Biology Poster

Cell Biology -
Poster Text: This branch of science studies how the cell works in specialized functions like reproduction and tissue formation. Cell biologists want to know hw healthy cells carry out their jobs, and how disease affects cells.

Cell biology draws heavily on genetics to research such things as human and animal cloning, how cells recognize each other during the immune response, how cancerous cells are formed, and how cells can be used to make useful products. Cell biologists have learned how to transform fat cells into cartilage cells, which are used to replace injured tissue in joints.

Mitosis Poster

Mitosis Poster
“All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.” Henry David Thoreau

A: Cell membrane, B: Nucleus, C: Spindle microtubules and daughter chromosomes, D: Vacuole

Plant Cell Structure &
Animal Cell Structure Posters
Illustrations of a typical plant cell or a typical animal cell have clearly labeled parts, descriptions of the structure and function of each organelle and its relation to the entire cell structure. The plant cell poster shows the cell wall, large vacuole, chloroplasts, nucleus, ribosomes, Golgi complex, mitochondria; the animal cell poster shows the plasma membrane, nucleus, ribosomes, Golgi complex, mitochondria, centrioles, cytoskeleton, and more. 21" x 34".

Cells Poster
Photomicrographic images of blood cells and an amoeba compare sizes, shapes, and jobs; accompanying text explains the different functions of each cell. Laminated, 17" x 22".

Cell Division Charts
contrasting somatic and germ cell division in plants and animals; follow the process of mitosis and meiosis with a color code to indicate the orientation of the chromosomes. 44" x 36".

Mitochondria, a membrane-enclosed organelle found in most eukaryotic cells, generate most of the cell's adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and play an important part in metabolic tasks.

Mitochondria have slightly different DNA and appears to be transmitted in the egg only, thus giving us important information about our evolutionary history.

The word mitochondrion comes from the Greek mitos=thread + khondrian=granule.

• Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

Anthrax, one of the oldest recorded diseases, is caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The word anthrax is from the Greek word for coal, in reference to the black skin lesions victims develop in a cutaneous skin infection. Anthrax is highly lethal in some forms and is capable of forming long lived spores. German researcher Robert Koch isolated the Bacillus anthracis in 1877, French scientist Louis Pasteur developed the first effective vaccine for anthrax in 1881.

• Spores, Plagues and History: The Story of Anthrax

Cancer is a group of diseases in which cells grow and divide without respect to normal limits, invade and destroy adjacent tissues, and/or spread to other locations in the body (metastatize).

• The Biology of Cancer

Diatoms, one of the most common types of phytoplankton, usually consist of two asymmetrical sides with a split between them, hence the group name (Greek dia=through + temnein=to cut, i.e. cut in half).

The silica cell wall (frustule) show a wide variety of form in diatoms, some quite beautiful. Diatom fossil evidence suggests that they originated during, or before, the early Jurassic Period.

• Diatoms: Biology and Morphology of the Genera

Nerve cells, electrically excitable cells in the nervous system, process and transmit information.

• Nerve Cells, Second Edition (Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience)