The Drosophila Melanogaster Song

[sophronia_chaos]

I just got out of bio lab, and since the class is on genetics, genomics and evolution, we'll be doing a lot of work with Drosophila melanogaster--fruit flies. I love working with fruit flies, because they're wonderful organisms to use in the study of genetics, and I think their wings are pretty when they're not vestigial. Of all the crazy things, I started thinking of a version of the Llama Song for the fruit flies. So here it is. Because I am that much of a geek.

Here’s a wild

There’s a wild

And another little wild

Female wild

Flying wild

Wild wild

Type

Wild wild

FlyNap

Wild

Thorax

Leg

Antenna

Wild

Wild wild

Red-eyed

Wild

Wild wild

Type

I was once a larva

I lived in the food

Bio students tried to draw me

And they all were rude

I was only five days old

And pupariated

When I came out of my shell

The students were elated

Did you ever see a wild

Kiss a wild

On the wild

Wild’s wild

Looks like wild

Wild wild

Type

Are those wings vestigial?

Do those eyes look white?

Does it like the lemon juice?

Does it have good sight?

Now the FlyNap’s kicking in

Here comes the KimWipe

Time for me to go to sleep

For I’m the wild type