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KNOWLEDGE By Johanna Simpson A-Level Project Biology Period 2 What is knowledge? Knowledge is there, but not always shown And physically knowledge is still somewhat unknown Recall a memory, Write a eulogy All that must come from somewhere Nerve cells buried deep, deep down Smaller than your hair Fire the thoughts, shoot the signals Watch the dendrites grow Sending chemicals through the axon They cross the synapse like a great canyon Watch the ends, don’t let them touch Before multitasking takes on a whole new meaning Your brain will do too much And you’ll end up doing it all together, from dancing to screaming Each pathway holds its own function Each cell knows which way to go Each organelle keeps you running Each molecule knows what to build and grow Something’s changing in your brain The dendrites come, but they leave just a quickly Like a crutch or cane “I’ll go when you don’t need me” They shrivel up and disappear When a certain skill becomes all too clear Break it down even smaller, to the parts of the cell First comes the membrane, that acts as the shell Then the mitochondria, the “powerhouse” organelle Lysosomes are the wrecking balls, taking down everything in the way Ribosomes make proteins, so you can live and breathe another day The Golgi packages these proteins, sending then off and away The Endoplasmic Reticulum is a mouthful to say But without it there wouldn’t be room to make proteins anyway The Nucleus rules over the rest of the cell Maintaining the functions, making sure all goes well It stores DNA and chromosomes, giving instructions for each and every job Without these I wouldn’t be here today Wouldn’t be breathing, laughing, or loving Time slows me down, makes thinking harder But I can still count the seconds, minutes, hours And no matter how long they run on I’ll always have the same answer: Knowledge is power.  

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