Question

Bone cells must make more bone on a regular basis. Your bones are made partially of a protein called collagen. Based on this information, which organelle would be more abundant in a bone cell?
•Ribosomes

•Chloroplast

•Mitochondria

•Nucleus

Answer 1

Collagen is a protein, and ribosomes are where protein synthesis occurs. Thus, one would expect ribosomes to be abundant in such bone cells.