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You Must Be Mendel
02:52
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Naked Mole Rat
04:17
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I live below the desert sands of East Africa / in the dark I'm pretty scary
I'm wrinkled and hairless with teeth that look like Dracula's / Yeah, I'm pretty ugly
We're the only mammals to live in colonies / lead by a queen (bar the Brits)
Most of us end up being batchelors / she only mates with three
I'm a naked mole rat, and you've come here into my habitat
Burrowing into my genes
To see what can be gleaned
For human beings
As I said, we don't have much sex / we've also got deformed sperm
But biologists main interest / is the fact we don't get cancer
You can give us twenty packs of unfiltered cigarettes / it's never been observed
Somewhere in our genes is a key to fewer deaths / so suddenly we're popular
I'm a naked mole rat, and you've come here into my habitat
Burrowing into my genes
To see what can be gleaned
For human beings
The hunt is on to establish / just how we stay cancer free
It looks like we've got a duplicate / overcrowding gene
Most other mammals just have P27 / similar in functionality
To our unique P16 / which gets turned on more quickly
I'm a naked mole rat, and you've come here into my habitat
Burrowing into my genes
To see what can be gleaned
For human beings
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From Luca to You and Me
05:13
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From Luca to you and me,
There were millions of living beings,
Steps taken
In between
LUCA lived on the ocean floor
Where thermal vents kept it warm
Then it started
Something new
A single cell LUCA split
Into new cells that didn't exist
different
With different genes
These child cells went their own way
Had their own kids that also changed
And started
To populate the seas
Chorus
Evolution has led to everything that's lived
Mutation means changes in the DNA of kids
Natural Selection then decides
Which species get to survive
Verse Set 2
All the living things which Have
DNA
With each new generation
that DNA may change
DNA changes may lead to
something new,
If it's is good, the creature lives,
If it's bad - bye bye to you
If the creature thrives where it lives
It is closer to perfection
If it grows up, and has some kids
That's Natural selection
V3
Stick insects didn't start out
Looking just like sticks
DNA changes made each generation
a little more like twigs
The birds who would hunt them
Would end up being tricked
Into eating the less camouflaged ones
so the stick type ones would live
The ancestor of whales
Was a cat-sized deer
It used to hunt in shallow streams
Ended staying their for years
They evolved to swim and live
Underwater
Ending up as whales thanks to surviving
Sons and Daughters
Chorus
Evolution has led to everything that's lived
Mutation means changes in the DNA of kids
Natural Selection then decides
Which species get to survive
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The Phylogenetic Me
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