So I made this song thing for some last minute biology revision. At the risk of being laughed at just a bit, I've decided to upload it here. It's a song about enzymes to the tune of Friday by Rebecca Black. Friday karaoke track courtesy of zfieldsmusic (this guy): www.youtube.com/user/zfieldsmusic
Hope you like it! :)
Audio version! (download enabled): https://soundcloud.com/evie-talbot/enzymes-song
LYRICS:
VERSE 1:
7am, been working all night
We're breaking things down, building things up too
When you have your bowl, when you have cereal
Catabolic ones help with digestion
Anabolic too, building up your muscles
Gonna get you to the bus stop
Keeping you alive
I see my friends
DNA ligase
ATP synthase
DNA tells each cell which of us they make...
CHORUS:
We're enzymes, enzymes
Gotta catalyse reactions
Active site's specifically shaped for the substrate, substrate
Enzymes, enzymes
Made of amino acids
Gotta change shape slightly to accommodate the substrate
Helicase, helicase (yeah!)
DNA polymerase (yeah!)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Make an enzyme-substrate complex
VERSE 2:
7:45, you're heading out the door
We're speeding things up millions of times
Globular proteins, soluble in water
You know what it is
I got this, you got this, inhibitor on my right (*gasp!*)
If it gets to me then my substrate won't fit
Intracellular or extracellular
Our usefulness depends on the active site's shape...
CHORUS
BRIDGE:
We help respiration
And DNA replication
We, we, we so important
We so important
Speed up so many reactions
Watch temperature and pH
The wrong one could change our shape
Don't want this reaction to end...
CHORUS x3