Lyrics Science

(To the tune of “Sentimental Journey”)

Gonna do
Some elemental learning

(To the tune of “Yellow Submarine”)

In the cells, inside of us, there’s a sugar on adenine
Which is linked, to phosphate groups, and you know it as ATP

(To the tune of “Oklahoma!”)

Prossss-taglandins
The ei-co-sa-noids creating pain

(To the tune of “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”)

Some things that you can build with acetyl-CoAs
Are joined together partly thanks to thiolase

(To the tune of “I’ve Just Seen a Face”)

I’ve just run a gel.
I do not think it went too well

(To the tune of “And I Love Her”)

If I am missing meals
On busy days

(To the tune of “California Dreamin’”)

Mendel took the lead (Mendel took the lead)
Working with his peas (working with his peas)

(To the tune of “Silent Night”)

Mismatch site. Bases might
Mutate here. Code re-write

(To the tune of “Feelin’ Groovy”)

The DNA forms
A and B

(To the tune of “This Land is Your Land”)

It’s one o’clock and
Ahern’s talkin’

(To the tune of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”)

Oh isn’t it great
What proteins can do

(To the tune of “Delta Dawn”)

Trans-po-son
All that movin’ hither yon

(To the tune of “Song Sung Blue”)

H-2-O
Ionizes slowly

(To the tune of “Twinkle, Twinke Little Star”)

Lysine, arginine and his
Basic ones you should not miss

(To the tune of “I’m a Lumberjack”)

Oh I’m a little mitochondrion
Who gives you energy

(To the tune of “(Coke®) It’s the Real Thing”

I’m gonna put some oxygens
beside my porphyrin rings

(To the tune of “When I’m 64”)

Building of proteins, you oughta know
Needs amino A’s

(To the tune of “The Way We Were”)

Enzymes
Mighty powerhouse peptides

(To the tune of “I Will”)

For running and for jumping
You need some energy

(To the tune of “I Wanna Hold Your Hands”)

Oh yeah, I’ll tell you something
It helps to understand

(To the tune of “Good King Wenceslaus”)

Amino acids cannot join
By themselves together

(To the tune of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”)

Hyaluronic acid
Acting almost magically

(To the tune of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”)

God rest ye merry dieters
With high cholesterol

(To the tune of “YMCA”)

PROSTATE!
Swollen in my inside

(To the tune of “Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime”)

Avogadro’s number is a huge one
Boltzmann’s constant’s rather miniscule

(To the tune of “Meet the Flintstones”)

Histones, tiny histones
Wrap up eukaryotic DNA

(To the tune of “She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain”)

Oh the students taking BB 3-5-0 - 3-5-0
Have an awful lot of things that we must know - 3-5-0

(To the tune of “I Got You Babe”)

(She sings)
You went outside and got a chill

(To the tune of “Dream a Little Dream of Me”)

Base pairs they all provide you
Stair steps to form a helix inside you

(To the tune of “You’re So Vain”)

Well I raced off to my doctor
Cause I was feelin’ the twinges of pain

(To the tune of “They Call the Wind Mariah”)

Get ATPs, bicarbonate,
Ammonia catalyzing

(To the tune of “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem”)

Oh little protein molecule
You’re lovely and serene

(To the tune of “Hark the Herald”)

Carbohydrates all should sing
Glory to the Haworth ring

(To the tune of “Don’t Sleep in the Subway Darling”)

I’m feeling so sad
‘Cuz I cut . . . . myself bad

(To the tune of “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”)

The 16 carbon fatty acid, palmitate
Gets all the carbons that it needs from acetate

(To the tune of “Gilligan’s Island Theme”)

I’d like to tell you all about
How songs stick in my brain

(To the tune of “My Country ‘tis of Thee”)

Henderson Hasselbalch
You put my brain in shock

(To the tune of “Star Spangled Banner”)

Did you know you can see?
In the dimmest of light

(To the tune of “Halls of Montezuma”)

From the fatty acids in our cells
To the lipids in our brains

(To the tune of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”)

All serine proteases
Work almost identically

(To the tune of “Maria” - from West Side Story)

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(To the tune of “Chim Chim Cher-ee”)

I’m obsessed with A-A-G-C-T-T
Because it’s the binding site of Hin-d-III

(To the tune of “Downtown”)

Reactions alone
Could starve your cells to the bone

(To the tune of “Oh Danny Boy”)

Oh Delta Gee - the change in Gibbs free energy
Can tell us if a process will advance

(To the tune of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”)

By now you know the story of the respiratory stew
Where the fatty acids get chopped up in units two by two

(To the tune of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”)

E. coli’s very simple
That’s the way the story goes

(To the tune of “Winter Wonderland”)

Mechan-i-sm . . determines
How an en . . zyme is workin’

(To the tune of “Jean”)

Heme, heme, colored supreme
Deepest red I’ve ever seen

(To the tune of “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”)

This bi-o-che-mis-try
Will be the death of me

(To the tune of “God Bless America”)

All information in
Cells’ DNA

(To the tune of “Ticket to Ride”)

Tonight I’m feeling quite glad
Because I can say (yeah)

(To the tune of “You’ve Got a Friend”)

When you’re deeply diving
Don’t forget the ni-tro-gen

(To the tune of “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”)

The fatty acids carried by CoA, CoA
Are oxidized inside the mi-to-chon-dri-ay

(To the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands”)

If you want to have a lot of energy (En-er-gy)
You had better make a lot of ATP (A-T-P)

(To the tune of “Penny Lane”)

In the catabolic pathways that our cells employ
Oxidations help create the ATP

(To the tune of “The Sound of Silence”)

Biochemistry my friend
It’s time to study you again

(To the tune of “Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes”)

When I’m exercisin’
It is not surprisin’

(To the tune of “Oklahoma!”)

Oh glaucoma!
You reduce the vision of our eyes

(To the tune of “Scarborough Fair”)

Photosynthesis is divine
Fixing carbon using sunshine

(To the tune of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”)

When cells have lots of ATP and NADH too
They strive to store this energy as sugar, yes they do

(To the tune of “Let It Be”)

When I was walking through the forest
Grizzly bears came after me

(To the tune of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”)

You’ve gotta admire
What molecules do

(To the tune of “My Sweet Lord”)
In this stream of consciousness song, the background choir’s words are in parentheses

My sweet tooth

(To the tune of “Auld Lang Syne”)

Whene’er my proteins go kaput
If they are past their prime.

(To the tune of “Yellow Submarine”)

Swimmin’ round in Puget Sound
Are so many things. I have found

(To the tune of “Frosty the Snowman”)

Phos-pho-di-esters
Are the bonds of RNA

(To the tune of “America the Beautiful”)

O beautiful with R-N-A
That makes the peptide bonds

(To the tune of “Blackbird”)

Substrate floating in the cell’s insides
Enzyme snags it with its binding site

(To the tune of “Supercalifragilistiexpialidocious”)

When oxygen’s electrons all are in the balanced state
There’s twelve of them for oh-two. The molecule is great

(To the tune of “You’re Sixteen”)

You’re in every protein
That I’ve ever seen

(To the tune of “A Few of My Favorite Things”)

Aldehyde sugars are always aldoses and
If there’s a ketone we call them ketoses

(To the tune of “Brahms Lullaby”)

In your sleep
You can keep