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What does the rough ER look like?

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The rough ER is a long coiled tube that looks like a intestine. If it is rough it has ribosomes traveling on it.

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What does the ER look like?

The rough ER is a long coiled tube that looks like a intestine. If it is rough it has ribosomes traveling on it.


How can you rough ER from smooth ER?

Rough ER looks like a maze and smooth ER looks like a sculpture. Another thing is that the Rough ER has ribosomes on it while the Smooth ER doesnt.


What is found on the surface of rough er that makes it look rough?

ribosomes


What makes rough Endoplastic Reticulum look rough?

Ribosomes make Rough ER have a rough appearance. Smooth ER does not have ribosomes, and therefore has a smooth appearance.


An organelle that is rough has?

I believe you are referring to the Rough ER, or the rough endoplasmic reticulum. It has many ribosomes on it which look like little black dots under a microscope and therefore it appears rough.


How do ER with ribosomes look under a microscope?

Rough.


What performs the same function of smooth er?

The Smooth ER performs a very similar function as the Rough ER. I don't know exactly what either do but if you look up "What performs the same function as Smooth ER?"


Are endoplasmic reticulum smooth and rough?

Smooth ER aren't covered in ribosomes, but rough ER are. ER are like transport tubes that go through the cell.


What is the difference between a rough ER and a Smooth ER?

The Smooth ER has no ribosomes on it and the Rough ER does. :) How simple is that?


How does rough endoplasmic reticulum differ from the smooth endoplasmic reticulum?

Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) is a network of intracellular membranes, it links the plasma membrane and other membraneous organelles. it is involved in the production, processing, transport and storage of materials within a cell.Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (RER), is assosisated with ribosomes, where proteins are made.Smooth endoplasmic reticulum(SER), lacks ribosomes and is involved in the metabolism of certain compounds and synthesis of lipids.


How can you tell rough ER and smooth ER?

The Rough ER has a surface covered by mitochondria - which appear as small circles, and make the surface "rough" in appearance. The Smooth ER does not have these ribosomes, and so the surface is just one smooth line.


How does rough ER from smooth ER?

if you meant how they differ, its like this. Rough endoplasmic reticulum has ribosomes on it, these are responsible for proten synthesis. The smooth ER on the other hand does not have ribosomes