To make one me you just add
half of Mom and half of Dad,
that is what I once believed.
But now I know that I was wrong,
you gave so much to me mom,
besides one half a set of genes.
You gave me nutrients, transcription factors,
nearly every thing that matters,
plus my pre-natal environment.
(trans placental inheritance)
MRNA, mitochondria
that back in the day once belonged to ya.
(procytoplasmic)
I just want to thank you for supplying them.
Just like two strands of DNA are spirally entwined,
your nature and your nurture inspiredly combined.
Scientists remind me and I find that it is true,
slightly more than half of everything I am is thanks to you.
Slightly more than half of everything I am is thanks to you.
Mitochondria power the cell and they have DNA as well,
transcription factors modulate transcription.
Since their in the cytoplasm, the eggs the only one who has them.
Sperm, I guess, they don't have the ambition.
My sex determination gene means that I'm a guy.
You gave me one X chromosome, Dad gave me one Y. (It's 6 XY)
X has over a thousand genes, Y has less that 92.
That's why slightly more than half of everything I am is thanks to you.
Slightly more than half of everything I am is thanks to you.
I roomed in your womb for nine months and never have paid the rent.
Your gluco-cortsoids helped shape my hypothalamic development.
I took your blood and sucked it dry of every nutrient (gross but true).
Some times I wonder where the time went (where did it go?)
Some times I wonder where it all went.
I know I'll never understand all you have done for me (I'm not that smart),
but since you paid for college I'll get my BS degree (bachelor of science).
And I have learned it's not BS, but absolutely true,
slightly more than half of everything I am is thanks to you.
More than half of everything I am is thanks to you.
You gave me nutrients, transcription factors,
nearly every thing that matters, MRNA, mitochondria
that back in the day once belonged to ya (procytoplasmic)
(I love you, Mom!)
nutrients, transcription factors,
nearly every thing that matters, MRNA, mitochondria
that back in the day once belonged to ya
Just like two strands of DNA are spirally entwined (double helix)
your nature and your nurture inspiredly combined
Scientists remind me and I find that it's true,
slightly more than half of everything I am is thanks to you. (it's Science)
Slightly more than half of everything I am is thanks to you.
Slightly more than half of me is thanks to you.
Music
Cadamole's "A Biologist's Mother's Day Song"
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