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Respond to discussion post: The robot factory analogy is a decent analogy for describing a cell. I'm sure there are lots of different ways to describe a cell, but the analogy that I've heard most often is comparing it to a city. Comparing a cell to a city is very similar to the robot factory analogy. I'm sure any analogy of running a business would be similar to a city since they operate in a similar fashion. The cell would be the city, the membrane would be that city's limits, the nucleus would be city hall, the mitochondria would be the power plant, and the lysosomes would be waste management. That's not all of the parts of a cell, but you get the picture. The only inherent benefit I could see of describing it to a city instead of a factory would be if you wanted to explain even further outside of a cell by introducing pathogens (or people invading a city during war time). There's actually an anime called Cells At Work that I watched years ago that depicts humans as different types of cells and their jobs within the body (or society). The show mainly focuses on all of the different types of cells and their impact on the body rather than just the workings of a singular cell. But the same could still be said for the different organelles and such within a single cell. I recommend watching it if you struggle remembering the function of different cells! Need Assignment Help?