As heard in the APOUD episode "GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY", it's the song that has as many genuine fruit fly gene names as I can cram into 60 seconds.
Listen to the whole episode by searching for "Unnecessary Detail" wherever you get your podcasts, or head to: festivalofthespokennerd.com/podcast
With thanks to Dr Kat Arney and Dr Sally Le Page for the inspiration, and Dr Katerina Chatzipli at the Wellcome Sanger Institute for the fact-checking.
lyrics
There’s cleopatra, capulet, cap-n-collar, chickadee
Breathless, bric a brac, hairy, ken and barbie
Jelly belly, swiss cheese, genghis khan and gooseberry
Sloppy-paired, slowpoke, slipper, slouch and say Yippee!
Prospero and pangolin, Pavarotti, pygopus
Crocodile, clootie dumpling, currant bun and klumpfuss
Sex-lethal, saxophone, son and bride of sevenless
Brainiac, amnesiac, giant, runt and tailless
There’s double parked, deadpan, daschund and dodo
Mastermind, menage a trois, nautilus and nemo
Hopscotch, hunchback, highwire, hedgehog, homeless, Hamlet, and hippo
Tubby, tinman, takeout, teashirt, tolkin, tango, torpedo
A fruit fly’s DNA has lots of code that is just dross… or filler...
BUT it’s *these* genes and some others that will make it a Drosophila.
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