The Cytoplasm Blues

The Cytoplasm Blues
Copyright 1989 T.H. Culhane
Melodic-Mnemonics

I’ve got a NUCLEUS for a brain
That’s where I house my DNA
It’s got my BLUEPRINT tucked away
In GENES on CHROMOSOMAL CHAINS

To be TRANSCRIBED by RNA
Contained within the CELL MEMBRANE

Down on the CYTOPLASMIC Plain
Down ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM WAY
Is where the RIBOSOMES at play
Are making PROTEINS every day
Shipped down to GOLGI COMPLEX bay
Where they are packaged and sent away…

Down at the LYSOSOME there lies
A bunch of ENZYMES, creepy guys
Who through DIGESTION win the prize
For breaking food stuff down to size
But these AEROBIC CELLS are wise
At getting ENERGY supplies

They send it off to the MITOCHONDRION
That’s where the battle for ATP is won
Making POWER so the CELL can run
‘cause these poor ANIMAL CELLS can’t use the SUN!

So we gotta WORK
We gotta EAT
We go beserk
Trying to COMPETE
But that’s why LIVING
Is sooooooooo much FUN!
(Yeah you gotta believe in the lives of a cell!)