science fictional story about the microbial world???

Question

my science teacher gave us an assignment and we're supposed to create a "science fictional story about the microbial world, using 4 main characters: Bacteria, Archaea, Viruses, and Protists..." i was okay with that part until i saw the grading rubric. to get a good grade, i have to make my story accurate in the portrayal of microbial life, while being HUMOROUS!!! is that possible? it might be just me, but i don't find binary fission that amusing. any suggestions for a basic plot?

Answer 1

Okay, they're in test tubes in a lab when some sort of event occurs that allows them to communicate with each other, perhaps telepathically. They want to escape the test tubes but they need to agree on a plan. You could make them class conscious if you like-- having the Archaea claim they are the oldest and therefore most aristocratic, best suited to devising this plan, while the Protists argue that, as the most diverse group they have more ways to engineer this escape, and so on. Perhaps a bit of social satire or (depending on your teacher) pop culture satire-- make them a bit like the people in Lost, who are wondering if they lab is hell or if they're together for a purpose-- one group could see a polar bear...

Good luck!

Answer 2

A "barber shop" (or bar room/cafeteria) dialogue, one may be a devasting desease bent on destroying it's host, another just a little sickening. Another beneficial to their host.
what are their advantages / disadvantages in survival?
The bad germs might talk about runnin' from the white blood cells.


Two yeasty beasts talking about sex, but the amoeba doesn't get it, but it splits it's sides anyway. There's got to be a funny in that somewhere if you work it.

Certainly a challenge in creativity and fact finding. Good luck, let me know if you get published...

~steve~

Answer 3

--It does sound kind of strange to me also. A solution to this might be by using some fictional personages to represent the 4different microbes.

--For humerous sake you could use cartoon characters such as the Tazmazian devil as virus, good bacteria like Winnie the Poo, or Tigger etc. You could be presenting the truths with silliessness that he seem to want.