How to Use organelle in a Sentence

organelle

noun
  • The organelles can fuse or break apart, which changes their shape and performance.
    — Elizabeth Landau, Quanta Magazine, 19 May 2025
  • Within yourself, your organelles and proteins and genes have stuff to do.
    — National Geographic, 29 Jan. 2017
  • How does each organelle balance the plant’s appetite for light with its distaste for too much?
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
  • Both the shaft and the filament are inside out and neatly folded into the tiny organelle.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Within cells are organelles, or little organs, that do specific jobs.
    — Trevor Grandpre, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024
  • In those with Batten, a defect occurs in the lysosomes, cell organelles that remove cell waste.
    — Cindy Sutter, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2017
  • Moreover, the membranes of these organelles resemble those of prokaryotes.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • 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
  • The organelles can each have a different pH and hold some molecules inside and keep others out.
    — Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Here’s a quick refresher course of some of the major eukaryotic organelles to keep your science skills sharp.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The study also highlights that lipid droplets – once thought to be inert fat stores – are in fact active organelles that manage how fat is stored and used in cells.
    — New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Each organelle serves a certain purpose in order for the cells, and overall organism, to function.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
  • And often the organelles, like the mitochondria that are present in the cytoplasm, will rupture.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The resulting organelle, termed a nitroplast, is still in the process of specialization.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Just as our bodies have organs that carry out specific functions to keep us healthy and alive, each of our cells have tiny structures known as organelles that do the same.
    — New Atlas, 26 June 2025
  • 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
  • This potentially counteracts the oxidative stress even at the level of the tiny organelle.
    — Elizabeth Landau, Quanta Magazine, 19 May 2025
  • Those components, or organelles, characterize cells of the third branch, the eukaryotes.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Offspring inherit the organelles from their mother, and durable proteins might ensure that mitochondria are sound when they are passed on via eggs.
    — science.org, 3 July 2024
  • But scientists are increasingly discovering that these small organelles do much more than just power cells.
    — Andrew Monteith, The Conversation, 25 June 2025
  • In this environment are specialized compartments known as organelles that carry out the cell’s functions.
    — Justin Quiles, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Caught between a vacuole and a hard place, the chloroplasts, nucleus, and other organelles are smushed against the plant cell’s rigid rectangular walls.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
  • 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
  • Scientists also have been studying how organelles interact with one another.
    — Katarina Zimmer, JSTOR Daily, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Tiny organelles, called mitochondria, exist inside living cells and have their own DNA.
    — Virginia Gewin, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Mitochondria, the little organelles found in the cells of almost every living thing, need oxygen to produce energy.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 Oct. 2019
  • In fact, the hallmark of this cell death is that there’s very open chromatin, and then organelles, rather than waiting till the end of the death process to exhibit defects, right from the beginning tend to swell.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The theory involves the mitochondrion — an organelle that was once a free-living bacterium.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Under a microscope, biomolecular condensates look like tiny objects adrift in a sea of cytoplasm packed with organelles and other structures.
    — Trevor Grandpre, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024
  • 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

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