29 Jun 00 - 05:29 PM (#249455) Subject: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Mrrzy I can't believe we don't already have a thread on this. When I was taking advanced genetics in college, we made up a song for Finals that went something like this: Let me tell you how it's gonna be So, what I envision now, so many many moons later, is something more in the nature of Tom Lehrer's The Elements. It should be to the tune of a Gilbert & Sullivan pattersong, like the Nightmare one if not the Modern Major General, and it can merely list as many sites as they've mapped, or include lyrical lyrics. REM's It's Then End Of The World As We Know It might actually be a[ppropriate, upon further reflection... Now go forth and multiply! |
29 Jun 00 - 05:50 PM (#249461) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Naemanson Not quite what you're looking for and I'm short on time: Genome, Genome, I'm deranged, Where deoxyribonucleotides change, The best part is sex, To get a proper mix, The result you hope is not strange! |
29 Jun 00 - 05:54 PM (#249463) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Mbo Insults among basic pairs: "Uracil!" Ah, the Land O' The Alleles... --Mbo |
29 Jun 00 - 06:11 PM (#249467) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: The Shambles D.N.A.
Natural Selection, Darwin said
Apples and oranges, chalk and cheese
Hey, hey, hey,
I wanted my son to be strong
All those deposits in sperm banks
Hey, hey, hey, Roger Gall |
29 Jun 00 - 06:17 PM (#249470) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: GUEST,Mike Ireland I think the gene pool needs a little chlorine in it! Mike |
29 Jun 00 - 08:09 PM (#249531) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Mrrzy Mbo, I about fell off my chair laughing. I also heard that one of the main problems with the gene pool is that it has no lifeguard.. |
29 Jun 00 - 08:27 PM (#249541) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: JenEllen Nah...the problem with the gene pool is all the stuff floating around in the shallow end.... Sung by the Blues Quartet of 'Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine'....
If love was a chain I think I would find me a long one |
29 Jun 00 - 08:44 PM (#249550) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Mbo Here's one I did about genetic viruses some time ago...click! --Mbo |
29 Jun 00 - 09:15 PM (#249568) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: JenEllen Horrible, truly horrible...but Village People
C-T-G-A ~Elle (having SERIOUS biochem flashbacks) |
29 Jun 00 - 09:33 PM (#249578) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Susan of DT I love it. How many biologists have we here? I taught genetics once upon a time. MBO send me your name on member e-mail, so I can credit you with the song. tunes, Shambles, MBO?? |
30 Jun 00 - 01:04 PM (#249888) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: GUEST,Mrr Good one Mbo, and nice way around finding the rhyme for Endoplasmic Reticulum! And Susan of DT, I have 2 degrees in Biology but never taught it. Does that count? |
30 Jun 00 - 04:47 PM (#249972) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: JenEllen Yep. Degrees in Biology and Zoology. Never thought I'd use them here! :) Also thanks Mrrzy, been having a BLAST with this one!! Driving everyone in the clinic absolutely mad. For yourself, how about a little high-energy gospel?
I'm gonna spilt some day, sweet Lord yes ~Elle |
30 Jun 00 - 04:49 PM (#249973) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Mbo All I have is an Associate's Degree in Liberal Arts, half way throught my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design...but I really like science! "This Mold House" comes to mind...Elle, we need to do some songs for the show... --Mbo |
30 Jun 00 - 05:07 PM (#249982) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: GUEST,Mrr These are a howl! But I'm still fishing for something in the pattersong domain... There's Adenine and Gu-anine and Cytosine and Thymine too / and don't forget poor Uracil although it's on just RNA / and when we twist together we can make a plant or animal and then we come apart again and make some more new little ones...(Regroup! and you change the 10 to 10 ones...) |
30 Jun 00 - 05:11 PM (#249989) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: JenEllen Mbo; I'm still reeling from This Mold House. (So are most of the folks that were at that seminar.) I agree, Praise's bash next summer? Afternoon dedicated to the melody of mold? ~Elle |
30 Jun 00 - 07:16 PM (#250045) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Bradypus I'm working on something, but genetic offspring won't go to sleep, so it may take me some time. First line: We have the very model of the chromasomes genomical By the way, have you found the Gilbert and Sullivan Parodies webpage ? I'll post the address later, when I've got two hands and a whole brain free ... Bradypus |
30 Jun 00 - 07:28 PM (#250051) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: JenEllen Bradypus; You manage to work in Dollo's law of Irreversibility, and you are my HERO! ~Elle (who will be working on this pattersong aspect tonight) |
30 Jun 00 - 07:49 PM (#250057) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Bradypus Daughter now asleep, but my brain can't handle genomics at this time in the morning (12:45 am)! Here's the parody archive - enjoy! I especially liked the Self-referential parody of the Major General's song; I've looked at a few others, and enjoyed them - I'm sure I'll be back at this site again
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30 Jun 00 - 09:01 PM (#250068) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Susan of DT A ballad with a refrain line of: oh the blue genes and the yellow... have to work on that |
01 Jul 00 - 04:08 PM (#250183) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Mrrzy Thanks for the G&S parody site! There is already something there to the tune of the Nightmare song... How about something like The genomic Rag? (replicate, replicate, replicate!) |
01 Jul 00 - 07:04 PM (#250278) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Bradypus This ended up a bit more serious than I intended, and it's missing the half verses from the original - is it worth taking any further ??
The Chromosomes Genomical
We have the very model of the chromosomes genomical
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01 Jul 00 - 07:44 PM (#250296) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: JenEllen FABULOUS!!!!!! I love it! GREAT job! |
02 Jul 00 - 06:09 PM (#250698) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Bill D ohh..WOW! Totally awesome work!...Bradypus, your fame is assured...*grin*.... |
02 Jul 00 - 10:33 PM (#250807) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Mrrzy BINGO! You win! What's the prize? |
02 Jul 00 - 10:38 PM (#250809) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: JenEllen I think the prize should be a wall chart of Bradypus' genes. :) ~Elle |
02 Jul 00 - 10:40 PM (#250811) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: bflat Bradypus, my, what genes you have!!! Just terrific! |
03 Jul 00 - 10:57 AM (#251071) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: GUEST Tune: Maryland, My Maryland
O DNA, O RNA, how precisely pair they bases; |
03 Jul 00 - 11:42 AM (#251084) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: Mrrzy Also works to O Tannenbaum, if that isn't already the tune (I'm not from Maryland, to paraphrase Jean-Luc Picard)...very nice! |
04 Jul 00 - 09:59 AM (#251595) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: raredance Aye, it's the one and the same tune. I just threw out the "Maryland" name for my own amusement. "Maryland, My Maryland" was a hugely popular song on the Confederate side of the US Civil War. You don't hear it sung much any more. rich r |
04 Jul 00 - 10:10 AM (#251597) Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Human Genome From: raredance Here's information on a book and song published a few years ago by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
"Double Talking Helix Blues " The answer is in DNA -- the stuff that genes are made of. Twin brothers Joel and Ira Herskowitz, physician and scientist, respectively, have come up with a new way to explain to children (ages 8+) how it is that when a person's genetic message is "copied," the result is another human being -- not a rabbit or an ear of corn. Based on a song written by Joel Herskowitz while he was in medical school, the "Double Talking Helix Blues" is a book and audio tape presentation on the structure and function of DNA. The book includes the text for Joel's song, which is illustrated with spectacular paintings by Judy Cuddihy to provide an important visual component to the overall "lesson" on DNA. This is followed by a guide written by Ira Herskowitz to explain the scientific terms and concepts in the song; this section describes in clear terms what, for example, a chromosome, nucleus, and molecule are. Accompanying the book is a 12-minute audio tape with performances of the song by Joel and Ira. All in all, the "Double Talking Helix Blues" provides young readers with a wonderful introduction to concepts of cells and molecules, reproduction at the molecular level, and DNA and its structure. The target age group for this presentation is ages 8 and up, as well as teachers, scientists, and all those interested in molecular biology at its most basic level. "Drawings of chromosomes, DNA, and Watson and Crick are cleverly interwoven with the lyrics to produce a pleasing story at whatever level the reader decides to adopt."
rich r |