Biology Christmas Songs SCIENTIFIC BIO The Twelve Days of Biology FAX! Sung to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas On the first day of biology my teacher gave to me Biology Sung to the tune of Oh Christmas Tree A lecture on lab safety (Second day) two X-traits Biology, Biology (Third day) three plant cells We study many living things (Fourth day) four chromosomes Biology, Biology (Fifth day) F I V E Punnett Squares We learn of cells and tissues (Sixth day) six cells dividing Of DNA and RNA (Seventh day) seven multiple alleles Mitosis and Meiosis (Eighth day) eight passive transports Biology, Biology (Ninth day) nine body systems And don’t forget bacteria (Tenth day) ten different ziomes (Eleventh day) eleven types of insects Biology, Biology (Twelfth day) twelve lessons learned You grow so well on Petri dishes Biology, Biology Much life you bring to us on Earth For every Spring Drosophila bring The Twelve Days of Dissection Many eggs, larvae and pupa Sung to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas Biology, Biology Life cycles have never been so fun On the first day of dissection my teacher gave to me A dead pig in a glass jar (Second day) two rubber gloves (Third day) Three tin pans We Three Fish (Fourth day) four embalmed cats Sung to the tune of We Three Kings (Fifth day) F I V E creepy things (Sixth day) six scalpels cutting We three fish from pond afar (Seventh day) seven scissors snipping Bearing food to bring in our jaw (Eighth day) eight worms a squirming Worms and snails and insects too (Ninth day) nine crayfish creeping Swimming in search of you—oh (Tenth day) ten frogs a croaking Fish with bone are Osteichthyes (Eleventh day) eleven bugs a crawling Fish with lungs in Africa (Twelfth day) twelve manuals instructing Evolution of the fish is shown in adaptations

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Human Cells Rudolph the Abnormal Gamete Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells Sung to the tune of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Dashing through the cell Rudolph the abnormal gamete On a strand of DNA Was a very messed up cell Through the nucleus we go And if you ever saw him Coding all the way You would say that he’s not well. Code, code, code All of the other sex cells Used to laugh and call him names. Chromosomes are gone They never let poor Rudolph Chromatids appear Join in any meiosis games. What fun it is to find a match Of homologous pairs Then one foggy Christmas eve Santa came to say, Oh human cells, human cells “Rudolph you’re a special cell Controlled by DNA Won’t you help give my gifts away?” Going through cycles Many tune a day, oh! (repeat) Then how the sex cells loved him As they tried to nondisjunct. They really wanted to help out And become a new zygote.

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