A Curious Girl: It was fifty years ago yesterday

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It was fifty years ago yesterday
Saturday, Mar. 01, 2003 - 19:33

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Crick and Watson's discovery of the structure of DNA. See this news article. Seeing as I missed it yesterday, I thought I'd write an ode to them today.

(To the tune of 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's club band')

It was fifty years ago today
Crick and Watson unlocked DNA
They were working on it quite a while
'Cause that molecule had such style
So may I introduce to you
The fact you've known for all these years
DNA is double-helical

Yes, DNA is double-helical
With purines and pyramidines
DNA is double-helical
The stuff that maps out our genes
DNA is double-
DNA is double-
DNA is double-
DNA is double-helical

A sugar and phosphate backbone
And those four bases too
It was such a discovery
They got the Nobel Prize for it
They got the Nobel Prize!

With X-ray crystallography
(By Franklin) It was plain to see
With Maurice Wilkins too
They got the prize in '62
So let me introduce to you
The secret of life on Earth
DNA is double-helical

Yes, DNA is double-helical
The strands run opposite ways
DNA is double helical
And has strict rules that it obeys
DNA is double-
DNA is double-
DNA is double-
DNA is double-helical

Ooh, and there's a film about it - it's great, and it's called Life Story or The Race for the Double-Helix in America. Read my review of it here.

Random word for today: helical

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