Wtf is a workhouse?

How about the ER is the Amazon Warehouse, since it folds up protein?

Or maybe the ER is the gym, since it synthesizes protein?

Or maybe workhorse since it seems to do so much....

The cell is the cell of the cell

The cell wall is the wall of the cell

Finally one I can remember

The cell membrane is the thin veneer of respectability of the cell

The cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein is the office guy who's always around but nobody knows what his job is.

ngl this would help in high school equivalent biology class decades ago lol

The midichlorian is the light saber of the cell.

The Human is the Fediverse of cells.

The cell membrane is the wall of the cell. I know it's less catchy, but human cells don't have a cell wall.

The Undertaker threw Mankind off hell of the cell

This is absoplasmic reticulous.

There's a wall on that cell, like some sort of... Cell wall-

Wait, say that again

Some of them seem a bit obtuse. "Municipal hall" doesn't immediately conjure a vivid image of it's role.

Welcome to the slaughterhouse; I'm autosome

This shit gives me existential dread and hope.

Like the complexity of cells might as well be an alien civilization, but all that somehow results in something that it's like to be me. That's so fundamentally mysterious, all I can do is conclude that consciousness has to be the prior of the universe. So on the one hand I'm nothing, and on the other, maybe I'm immortal. I won't know until I'm dead.

Ok now do the ye olde version

the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell

Edit: the joke has already been made here.

The Vault is the _____ of the cell?

I did a podcas (I know 🙄), where we talked about how much better our civilization would run if we modeled it after a cell or organism. Like for example, only about 10% of the total amount of ATP generated by the mitochondria goes to the nucleus, so maybe the people in charge in America should only get about 10% of the total distributed wealth/resources

The HIV is the HIV of the cell.