Cell Song
(Music: Popcorn originally by Gershon Kingsley)

 
Cells are tiny little things
One hundred billion in your brains
Surface area to volume ratio
Makes them tiny things

Nucleus has a membrane
Chromatin inside it stays
Lamina between the layers
Made of keratin protein

Ribosomes make your proteins
Ribosomes make your proteins
Some are bound to ER membranes
Some are free in cytosol.

Rough ER has bound ribosomes
Proteins bound for other homes
Outside of the cell or
In the membrane
And some organelles

Smooth ER is functional
In making lipids for your cell
And for metabolizing carbohydrates
Detoxifies as well

Golgi Apparatus, Cis
Golgi Apparatus, Trans
It modifies the proteins
Sorts them out
And sends them on their way

Lysosomes are just a sac
With enzymes they will attack
As they engulf food particles
Digest them and give them all back

Chloroplasts have two membranes
(mitochondria the same)
they take sunlight, CO2
and water
give off oxygen

Chorus:
My cells are amazing structures
Mitochondria
They all came from your mother
Their DNA’s like your brother’s

Let’s do this another time
My song ain’t got a single rhyme
But if you listen to it you’ll remember every single time.





The lost verses…

Peroxisomes inside your liver
From the toxins they deliver
They take Hydrogen to form
H2O2
Then break it down again


Your cells need lots of ATP
To use for all their energy
So they perform respiration
With the mitochondria