Table of Contents

• 1: The Case of the Sliced Up Cell
• 2: The Bagel Organelle
• 3: Match the slices
• 4: The versatile tube
• 5: Slicing up the alphabet
• 6: A mystery organelle

The Bagel Organelle

Let's start with a really basic shape -- the bagel (a.k.a. the donut, a.k.a. the ring). Select the buttons below to see 2-D representations of the slices.

Notice how none of the slices looks like a bagel? That's typical when you reduce a three dimensional object to only two dimensions. Of course you could get a slice with a typical "donut" shape, but you would have to cut in a very specific way to do that.