Oh DNA! by Carol B.and Catherine S.
sung to "Oh Christmas Tree"
Oh DNA! Oh DNA! How lovely are your bases.
Oh DNA! Oh DNA! Carries our genetic traces.
Adenine and Thymine,
always paired, always a team.
Oh DNA, Oh DNA! How lovely are your bases.
Oh DNA! Oh DNA! How lovely are your bases.
Oh DNA! Oh DNA! Carries our genetic traces.
Guanine and Cytosine,
always paired in every being.
Oh DNA, Oh DNA! How lovely are your bases.
Oh DNA! Oh DNA! How lovely is your structure.
Oh DNA! Oh DNA! It is a double helix.
The sides of the ladder are composed,
of Phosphate and deoxyribose.
Oh DNA, Oh DNA! How lovely is your helix.
Cells
by Natalie S. and Heather R.
sung to "Let It Snow"
When an egg got fertilized
It became an embryo...
Cells keep splitting in two,
And that's how we made you!
Each cell has a nucleus,
The nucleolus' home.
The nucleus' main job,
To hold all of the chromosomes.
Cytoplasm floats around,
All inside the cell,
That is how it is done,
Make a cell, make a cell, make a cell.
DNA! by Erica L. and Carol S.
sung to "Winter Wonderland"
Had a test? Got an F?
Tough to get an easy A?
Well genius it seems, is a recessive gene.
The fault is your parents' DNA.
You sit in science class and feel ugly,
Teacher's criticisms hard to take.
But the next time you get ripped on you say smugly:
"My parents' gametes made a big mistake."
You can't help what's in your cells.
Lousy chromosomes aren't swell.
So when you choose a mate, for your kid's sake
Find someone with decent DNA!
Mitosis by Katie B.
sung to "Jingle Bells"
Inside the cell, before it splits in two.
There are several phases the nucleus goes through.
A student wrote this song to help you learn the way,
The nucleus divides itself each and every day.
Interphase, interphase the resting point for cells.
This is where growth occurs in the parent cell.
Prophase, prophase chromosomes have replicated,
Soon they will appear so they can be separated.
Metaphase, metaphase, metaphase is great,
This is where chromosomes line up at the equatorial plate.
Anaphase, anaphase, anaphase comes next.
This is where the chromosomes finally disconnect.
Telophase, telophase, the last one of them all,
Ending with two nuclei that are identical.
