What are You Made Of?

Let's see what cells are... in a creative way. Differentiate animal & plant cells and prokaryotes & eukaryotes through poetry.

We're the living - the ones alive
But we vary from kind to kind
Our lives came from a thing so simple -
From a cell - something once single

What do you have? Come, tell me
A cell that's prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
Or what kind of eukaryote are you?
Animal or plant? Which is true?

A prokaryote, that is!
No true nucleus, no mitochondria
Not even a chlorophyll, nor cytoskeleton
Oh, yeah... it undergoes asexual reproduction

A eukaryote, that's what you are!
With nuclear envelope and chlorophyll as well
You're lucky you have DNA, double-stranded
And more organelles, membrane-bounded

Are you a plant with cell walls,
A vacuole so large, yet no centrioles?
Then a chloroplast is what you need...
For photosynthesis indeed!

Now you're telling me you're an animal,
With vacuoles so many and so small?
Aha! You're busted! You have no cell wall!
But you have centrioles, after all...

We're the living ones - the alive
But we vary from kind to kind
Our lives came from a thing so simple -
From a cell, something once single

Author's Note

This is just a school activity and I wanted to share it with you... hope you like it.