Uploaded December 2009 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago
Lyrics by Mr. Cortez (Hogan High School) and Tom McFadden.
DISCLAIMER: We wrote this song to get students excited about the basics of protein synthesis and how proteins can affect phenotypes, including disease phenotypes. Note that very few things in life can actually be "blamed on DNA", and we hope you don't walk away from this video with that message. We also don't want to make light of the seriousness of genetic disease - just to help people understand its basis.
Animations by Drew Berry, via Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Available with narration at:
hhmi.org/biointeractive/animations/index.html
Stanford Protein Synthesis Video available on youtube:
youtube.com/watch?v=u9dhO0iCLww
Thanks to D Davis for the Regulatin Genes shoutout.
Lyrics by Mr. Cortez (Hogan High School) and Tom McFadden.
DISCLAIMER: We wrote this song to get students excited about the basics of protein synthesis and how proteins can affect phenotypes, including disease phenotypes. Note that very few things in life can actually be "blamed on DNA", and we hope you don't walk away from this video with that message. We also don't want to make light of the seriousness of genetic disease - just to help people understand its basis.
Animations by Drew Berry, via Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Available with narration at:
hhmi.org/biointeractive/animations/index.html
Stanford Protein Synthesis Video available on youtube:
youtube.com/watch?v=u9dhO0iCLww
Thanks to D Davis for the Regulatin Genes shoutout.
