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Thread #4816   Message #179047
Posted By: Mary in Kentucky
15-Feb-00 - 08:07 PM
Thread Name: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
Subject: RE: Folk songs appropriate for medical students
I found a wonderful book titled The Biochemists' Songbook which puts the words to 19 different biochemical processes (or syntheses or whatever) to the tunes of "well-known" songs. I am certainly not a biochemist, but this little book looks like a gem! Here's the book info and a table of contents. My source (college student) says it's available from BarnesandNoble.com but not Amazon.com. There are complex biochemical diagrams, music notation and an average of ten verses for each song.

The Biochemists' Songbook
2nd edition
by Harold Baum
foreword by Sir Hans Krebs
Taylor and Francis Ltd., 1995
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ISBN 07484 04163
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data are available

CONTENTS:

The Michaelis Anthem -- Tune: The Red Flag
The Praise of E.M.P. -- Tune: The British Grenadiers
Waltz Round the Cycle -- Tune: Waltzing Matilda
&$223; Oxidation -- Tune: There is a Tavern in the Town
The Battle Hymn of the Aerobes: The Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Chemiosmotic Theory -- Tune: The Eton Boating song
Photosynthesis -- Tune: Auld Lang Syne
Blood Sugar -- Tune : The Road to the Isles
The Glyoxylate Cycle -- Tune: The Lincolnshire Poacher
The Pentose Phosphate Shunt -- Tune: Macnamara's Band
Fatty Acid Biosynthesis -- Tune: Men of Harlech
We're Here Because Urea -- Tune: The Bold Gendarmes
Protein Biosynthesis -- Tune: My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean
Haem Biosynthesis -- Tune: A Policeman's Lot is not a Happy One
Metaboliam of Odd-Number Carbon Fatty Acids -- Tune: Tit Willow
Regulation of Ketogenesis -- Tune: Clementine
Purine Biosynthesis -- Tune: Camptown Races
Cholesterol Biosynthesis -- Tune: Cwm Rhondda
A Cautionary Carol -- Tune: Good King Wenceslas