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Hello, I'm Sam Smith.

This podcast is going to cover cell organelles, and I'm going to go through lots and lots of different organelles, I think something like 17 in total.

And if you don't have a good cell biology background, like me for instance, then you'll probably find this podcast pretty helpful.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to go through these different organelles.

I'll talk about their name, their function, their location within the cell,

and then tell kind of an interesting fact or an interesting story to kind of tie it together with some other topics in the AMCAD, maybe help you remember it a little bit better. And this material is going to show up on one out of the four sections, which is going to be the bio-biocem section. And in terms of yield, I'd put this somewhere in like the medium yield category, like a 7 out of 10 or like a C plus. So it's not super high yield, but you're going to see a few problems. So I hope this podcast helps for those of you that don't really have a good background in this. And for those of you that do, you know, maybe take a listen and fill in the gaps that you're missing. And so the first thing I want to do before diving into all these cell organelles is define the term cell organelle for you.

In doing my research for this podcast, I came upon two kind of separate definitions. The first

definition is that an organelle is, quote, a membrane boundbound structure in a cell that serves a specialized function.

But I'm choosing to use a more broad, inclusive definition that includes non-membrane-bound

structures, that includes things like ribosomes, flagella, nucleolus, and more.

And so overall, I am defining a cellular organelle to be a specialized subunit

within a cell that has a specific function, and it doesn't necessarily have to have a lipid membrane.

And so as I said in the intro, what I'm going to do is I'm going to give the name of the organelle.

I'll give its function, this location within the cell, then an interesting fact about that organelle,

and hopefully I'll be able to tie that together to some other category

that I've talked about in a previous podcast.

So I've broken these organelles down into a few different categories,

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