Cloning DNA - for the ScienceOnline 2013 sing along

I've heard you have to sing loud if you want to change the world.

Cloning DNA – lyrics by Sandra Porter, sung to the tune of Surfin' USA

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If everybody had a plasmid, across the U.S.A.,

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then everybody'd be cloning, with their DNA
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You'd see them wearing their goggles.
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and their lab coats, too
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multicolored gloves on, cloning DNA

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You'll catch them all pipetting, stuff inside the tubes, (inside outside cloning DNA)
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It's all looking cloudy, with lots of goo
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All over the bench tops, gels are running away
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Photographing our fragments, cloning DNA

We'll all be planning out a route, we're gonna start real soon
We’re extracting our samples, we can't wait for June
We're in the lab for the summer, we're at the bench to stay
Everybody's out cloning, with cloning DNA

At the board with our markers, and at the centrifuge, (inside outside cloning DNA)
Icing down our enzymes, in the water bath, too,
We're in the lab for the summer, we're at the bench to stay
Everybody's all cloning, with their DNA

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