Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts

Friday, September 25, 2015

Video about DNA repair


Thank you for the suggestion Vasco! :)
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Monday, June 22, 2015

Cartoon - DNA (2)

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am an advocate that our genetic (and epigenetic) information has much more influence on what we are than the classic 50% genetic + 50% environment. Any offspring that is created is the result of the combination of genetic material from two different progenitos, almost as if a new life was woven from the DNA of the parents...

Thanks for the cartoon Vasco! :)
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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Music about codons

This music was bsed on the famous When I'm Sixty Four, and talks about codons. It was made by Dr. Kevin Ahern (www.davincipress.com/metabmelodies.html).

The Codon Song

Building of proteins, you oughta know
Needs amino A's
Peptide bond catalysis in ribosomes
Triplet bases, three letter codes
Mixing and matching nucleotides
Who is keeping score?
Here is the low down
If you count codons
You'll get sixty four

Got - to - line - up - right
16-S R-N-A and
Shine Dalgarno site

You can make peptides, every size
With the proper code
Start codons positioned
In the P site place
Initiator t-RNAs
UGA stops and AUGs go
Who could ask for more?
You know the low down
Count up the codons
There are sixty four

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Music about the structure of DNA

Dr. Ahern (www.davincipress.com/metabmelodies.html) has created this song about the structure of DNA, inspired by the music Feelin' Groovy.


Major Groovy

The DNA forms
A and B
Have bases
Complementary
Despite the similarities
They differ in their
Major groovies

Nanananananana major groovy

Transcription factors
With their bindin'
' Cause DNA to
Start unwindin'
Holding it
Aggressively
By forming bonds in
Major groovies

Nanananananana minor groovy

For proteins, the key
To sequence I-D
Is hydrogen bonding, each base pair unique
Purine, pyridine patterns discrete
In DNA’s most
Major groovy

Nanananananana major groovy
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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Music about DNA

Is there anyone who does not know the music YMCA? Here it is a version of it about DNA, made by Dr. Ahern (www.davincipress.com/metabmelodies.html)... :)

http://www.mediafire.com/?v0lk6tqayxgjpcb



B-DNA

Phosphates
Are in nucleotides
I say phosphates
Cover bases inside
I say phosphates
Span the 5 and 3 primes
There's no need - to - be - all - mixed - up

Bases
Carry info you see
I say bases
Are all complement'ry
I say bases
Like A,T,G and C
They have got - to - be – all - paired - up

It's fun to play with some
B-DNA
It's got a boatload of
G-C-T-A
It's got everything
A polymerase needs
When you melt all the A's and T's

It's fun to play with some
B-DNA
It's got a boatload of
G-C-T-A
You can make RNAs
With a po-ly-mer-ase
Just by pairing up U's with A's

Proteins
Full of amino A's
I say proteins
Come from mRNAs
I say proteins
Require tRNAs
There is more – you - need - to – trans-late

Codons
Like our friend U-A-C
I say codons
Come in clusters of three
I say codons
Have one base wobble –ee
Now you can - go - forth - and - tran-slate

It's fun to play with some
B-DNA
It's got a boatload of
G-C-T-A
All those hydrogen Bs
And right-hand he-li-ces
Anti-par-a-llel fives and threes

It's fun to play with some
B-DNA
It's got a boatload of
G-C-T-A
All those hydrogen Bs
And right-hand he-li-ces
Anti-par-a-llel fives and threes

It's fun to play with some
B-DNA
It's got a boatload of
G-C-T-A
All those hydrogen Bs
And right-hand he-li-ces
Anti-par-a-llel fives and threes