The Book of Life

(To the tune of “The Look of Love”) / Recording by Adrianne Smith

The book of life – the stuff of dreams
Is everywhere, it seems

The book of life, is biochemistry and
Its words fill every day
Just what it says is written into the DNA

I just want to get to know it
How the info’s coded
What are all the secrets?
Ribosomes can read it
Goodness knows it’s needed

And so its alphabet’s
In codon forms
For ribosome bookworms

They read it right
A protein’s function to its sequence corresponds
It’s not just randomly created peptide bonds

What a marvel of creation, how they do translation
Of m-R-N-A chains,
Using bits of glycine
Proline and some lysine
Translate the code

Instrumental

I just marvel at the knowledge
That I got in college
To learn all the secrets
Double helix spaces
Complementary bases
Pyrimidines
Paired to purines
The book of life

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