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in the world there are two kinds of things the ones that are alive and the ones non-living I’m not busting this rhyme hoping that it sells I’m here to drop some knowledge, the difference is the cells cells are the basic units of all life make up plants and animals, not a fork or a knife won’t find them in rocks or even in your rims they’re in your head and in your toes, when you take off your timbs all creatures have them in the water or on land a lion or a shark, a crab living in the sand cells also make up any type of plant a tree or a bush, this mic I’m holding it just can’t it’s got to be made up of cells to be living a blade of grass, a flower or a turkey before Thanksgiving Chorus cells..we’re made up of cells cells are made of organelles cells..we’re made up of cells cells are made of organelles all plants and animals are made up of cells each cell is made up of parts called organelles so tiny you need a microscope to see about 100 trillion cells make up you me even tinier are the parts called organelles most important is the nucleus, it’s the brains of the cell packed in chromosomes contains the DNA tells the cell what to do, and the nucleus, it don’t play then there are ribosomes that make protein also are the lysosomes, they keep the cell clean throughout the cell travels the endoplasmic reticulum its job is to transport proteins to and from and then there are vacuoles to store food and waste and the golgi complex to package protein the cell makes you know what, all plants and animals are made up of cells and each cell is made up of parts called organelles Chorus the mitochondrion is the cell’s powerhouse it helps a cat run when it’s chasing a mouse from oxygen and food it makes energy it takes air and a burger to create ATP this is a process called aerobic respiration it’s why we always need to breathe at work or on vacation the doorway to the cell is the cell membrane a flexible outer shell it’s job is to contain all of the organelles it makes me want to shout ‘cuz it lets the good things in and keeps the bad things out besides the organelles the cell isn’t empty space it’s filled with a cytoplasm, I’ll say it to your face it’s a fluid made of mostly water so things can float around you best believe this or else you’ll get a beat-down Chorus now there is a big difference between a plant and you plant cells have all the same organelles but two it’s surrounded by something to make it stand tall it doesn’t have any bones so it needs a cell wall the other in a plant helps to make it’s own food it’s called a chloroplast, I ain’t trying to be rude you see plants are not like us because they don’t have to eat gonna faint when you here this, you better take a seat it’s called photosynthesis and you’re ain’t gonna believe it plants turn sunrays into food, can you even conceive it a hundred trillion cells make up you and me it’s the basic unit of all life, don’t you see now you know everything there is to know about the cell I’m so proud that you do it makes me want to yell Chorus
