The DNA song, by Jackie

Hi Tom,

Since you asked so nicely for me to return to blogging, I am going to give you the DNA song exclusive! You can post this. Some of the words may be wrong and there may also be some factual errors...but hey, it needs to rhyme.

(A7)First there was a (D)man named Griffith,
(A7)Trying to cure pneu-(D)monia
He found (G)coated bacteria (D)killed mice,
but un-(A7)coated strands left them (D)alone.

On the road to (G)de(D)oxy(A7)ribonucleic(D) acid
(G)making obser-(D)vations and (A7)wondering (D7)why
(G)de(D)oxy(A7)ribonucleic acid(D)
the research (G)then passed(D) to an(A7)other (D)guy

Avery's plans were more deliberate
he wanted to sort it out
to get past the questions and speculation
and find what this DNA was about.

He mixed dead coated strands with live uncoated ones
and gave a mouse the juice
and when the mice died what he found was astonishing:
the coated strands had reproduced!

Discovering Deoxyribonucleic acid
preparing the world for a paradigm shift
Deoxyribonucleic acid
futher research gave the notion a lift

Hershey and Chase used radioactive labels
Erwin Chargaff found nitrogen bases
Rosalind Franklin found its helixical shape
They're all filling in the empty spaces

On the road to Deoxyribonucleic acid
making discoveries and looking for more
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Stripping life processes to their very core

Soon Watson and Crick put it all together
it was clear in their eyes,
They built and accurate model of DNA
and they won the Nobel prize

They showed the world Deoxyribonucleic acid
so everyone could look and see
Deoxyribonucleic acid
and it's in the cells of you and me

It's deoxyribonucleic acid
contains all the instructions for building proteins
Deoxyribonucleic acid
and it determines how you'll look in your genes [jeans].

I didn't think I'd be able to remember it all but then I got on a roll! [like butter!]

-Jackie

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