Intro – My topic is the cell wall
It maintains the shape of the cell
Protects the cell from damage
Like an armored shell
It keeps the right amount of water
Concentrated within the cell

Chorus – One can be seen from space
In Berlin they made one fall
There’s even one to wail on
But none are like the cell wall

Verse 1 – Plant cells are not sealed
They all have Plasodematas
Which are channels through the wall
To form bridges in-between
H2O and CO2 pass
And keep the cells alive

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Verse 2 – Beta Glucose, 80 times
Make up Microfibrils
The key to the strength of the wall
A matrix is what they are called
Like steel reinforced concrete
The architectural piece of the wall

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Verse 3 – All have a primary wall
The stage of young cell life
Then the middle lamella
Sticky polysacchrides called pectins
Some cells make a second wall
Which are deposited layers of matrixes

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Verse 4 – Walls are micrometers thick
Keep shape, protect, and maintain
Made of cellulose, polysacchrides and some proteins
Are in bacteria and fungi as well
The cell wall

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