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Educational Science Songs
Dr. Greg Crowther, a biologist and musician, creates and sings science songs that cover a variety of scientific topics. Many of these songs have been featured in the book Chemically Speaking and in the periodicals Nth Degree and Biome. Dr. Greg has also written an article on educational uses of science songs titled Learning to the Beat of a Different Drum, which appears in the March/April 2006 issue of CONNECT magazine.

The University Week at the UW has a report on Greg: "Much talk of teaching -- and a little singing"

Below is a partial listing of educational songs written for and/or used in this project.  Thousands of others are listed in MASSIVE (http://www.science-groove.org/MASSIVE), a free online database.

• “A is for Alanine” [poem]
  Topic: amino acids
  Lyrics
  
  
• “Delta G”
  Topic: thermodynamics
  Lyrics
  
  
• “Genotype Versus Phenotype”
  Topic: genetic mutation
  Lyrics
  Sheet music
  
  
• “Hooray For NMR Spectroscopy!”
  Topic: biological applications of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
  Lyrics
  Online recording
  Sheet music
  
  
• “The Krebs Cycle”
  Topic: cell metabolism
  Lyrics
  Online recording
  
  
• “Mitosis”
  Topic: cell division
  Lyrics
  Sheet music
  
  
• “Myofibrils”
  Topic: muscle physiology
  Lyrics
  Online recording
  
  
• “Oxidative Phosphorylation”
  Topic: cell metabolism
  Lyrics
  Online recording
  
  
• “Photosynthesis Calypso”
  Topic: cell metabolism
  Lyrics
  
  
• “The River Of Enzymes”
  Topic: cell metabolism
  Lyrics
  
  
• “The Schiff Base Riff”
  Topic: chemical bonds / enzyme-substrate intermediates
  Lyrics
  Sheet music
  
  
• “Semiconservative Science Dude”
  Topic: DNA replication
  Lyrics
  Sheet music
  
  
• “These Cells Are Your Cells”
  Topic: cell structure and diversity
  Lyrics
  
  
• “The Two-Law Ditty”
  Topic: thermodynamics
  Lyrics
  
  
• “Two Main Types Of Cells”
  Topic: prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
  Lyrics
  Sheet music
  
  
• “The Waltz Of The Ribosomes” [poem]
  Topic: Central Dogma (DNA, RNA, protein)
  Lyrics
  Online recording
  
  
• “What Cell Is This?”
  Topic: prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
  Lyrics