James is making models of plant and animal cells using objects supplied by his teacher to represent organelles. For one cell, he will place the objects in a shoebox. First he fills a balloon with water and places it in the shoe box. He also drops a handful of marbles into the box. Which statement most likely describes the structures he has represented so far?

The shoebox represents the cell wall, a rigid outer structure found in plant cells but not animal cells. The water-filled balloon is like a plant cell’s large central vacuole, which stores water. The marbles can represent ribosomes, which are tiny structures found in cells. So the best choice is the plant cell with the box as the cell wall, the balloon as the large vacuole, and the marbles as ribosomes.

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