Cell Poem

Dear cell,
all eukaryotic cell
all prokaryotic cell
you all make me so well because you do not smell.
The nucleus,
you hold the DNA and the genes,
making me want to take a tour of your cell on a bus.
Ribosomes
producing proteins is what they do
you make me want to go to the zoo.
Golgi apparatus, cis and trans,
feels like sorting shoes from boots to laces to vans.
Endoplasmic reticulum, so smooth and rough
are you considered tough and buff?

Dear cell membrane,
includes the integral proteins which penetrates the lipid bilayer
and the peripheral proteins which are not embedded in the lipid bilayer.
please be permeable and let substances pass through you without a hassle,
needing transport protein, carrier proteins, channel proteins.
Protecting the cell is your role.

Dear cell signaling,
signal transduction pathway is a multistep process for cellular response
local regular and hormones brings organisms together
ligands bind from small molecules to big molecules.
reception, transduction, and response are the stages to cell signaling.
Cell signaling is vital to the cell’s communication process.