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A nucleus is a 'storage' container, basically. It carries and protects information and stores things like DNA. If you were to see this in a diagram, you would see it as a smallish circle, usually black. Blood cells have no nucleus, so they can transport oxygen in larger amounts.

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the nucleus is a organelle that controls the whole cell it is in. it controls everything that goes on.

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