cells are cool

So I saw this on DancingFish's blog, and had to do it:

The ER You scored 80 Industriousness, 35 Centrality, and 15 Causticity!

You're the Endoplasmic reticulum! The ER modifies proteins, makes macromolecules, and transfers substances throughout the cell. It has its own membrane, and translation of mRNA happens within it. You tend to have two sides to you - sort of a jekyll and Hyde kind of story. One side of you tends to be rough and tumble, but also very useful. Your other side is less well-defined and slightly more mysterious.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 93% on Industriousness You scored higher than 63% on Centrality You scored higher than 26% on Causticity

Link: The Which Cell Organelle are you? Test written by fading_shadows on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

The description made me think of the intro to Ike and Tina Turner's 'Proud Mary':

We never ever do nothin' nice and easy. We always do it nice and rough. Now, we're gonna take the beginning of this song and do it easy, but then we're gonna do the finish rough

And now that song'll be in your head all day long. Nice and Rough.

It's cool because if I were an organelle, I would want to be the endoplasmic reticulum. It's my favorite organelle to say. It's fun! Say it with me, slowly: End-o-plas-mic Re-tic-u-lum. Plus, sometimes I can be smooth, and other times..rough.

Rollin' on the river.

My second favorite organelle to say is golgi apparatus, which is continuous with the smooth ER and packages all the protiens up for transport wherever they need to go in the cell. I'm all about protein synthesis, baby!