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The Genome Song
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A parody to Eric Idle's wonderful "The Galaxy Song" but based on the human genome... perfect for your biology homework
parody funny satire
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Parody artist with a penchant for wit and wordplay
This isn't a band, it's just me... I write songs, usually parodies, and occasionally get the chance to record stuff. This seemed like a good sort of site to give people access to the recordings. I hope you like them: I like to think they're kind of funny
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Podcasts • Comedy
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Peak #13
Peak in subgenre #5
Author
Phil Alexander
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Phil Alexander
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October 09, 2004
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MP3 1.6 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
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Whenever school gets you down, Master Brown And science seems hard, or tough Biology's difficult, obtuse or daft And you feel that you've had quite enough... Just remember that you're living in a body that's inspiring And respiring with ten million million cells Each one is point-oh-five millimetres side to side And full of lots of types and kinds of organelles The nucleus is small - 100 nanometres tall We make millions of new ones every day And our chromosomes, it seems, contain 100,000 genes In a double-stranded helix DNA Our genome itself contains three billion base pairs Each one GC or AT side by side But just one-sixty millions, of those 3.2 billions Are actually encoding nucleotides To make one whole protein, it takes but a single gene Say, fifteen hundred nucleotide pairs And the whole genetic sequence has millions of billions Of permutations for our varied life on earth Our cells and DNA keep on dividing and dividing Mitosis makes a carbon-copy cell But so we can reproduce, some cells they will produce Meiotic'ly a haploid one as well Two haploids can combine, say, one of yours and one of mine To create uniquely sequenced DNA And with this replication comes occasional mutation, so Evolution comes about this way
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kellyholden
Jan 27, 2008
Awesome.