"To make one me you just add
 Half of mom and half of dad
 That is what I once believed
 But I know now that I was wrong
 I got so much more from you mom
 Than just half a set of genes
 I got nutrients and transcription factors
 and nearly everything that matters
 plus my prenatal environment (transplacental inheritance)
 mRNA, mitochondria,
 That back in the day once belonged to ya (theyre cytoplasmic)
 and I just want to thank for supplying them
[...]"
    -- Adam Cole, "A Biologist's Mother's Day
Song", (
YouTube, 
CD Baby)
(a) Thanks to 
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for linking
to this earlier (uh, about two years earlier), and (b) Go 
listen to the whole thing.  Especially if you're even the tiniest
bit of a science geek (which I think covers the majority of my
friends).
drglam
for linking
to this earlier (uh, about two years earlier), and (b) Go 
listen to the whole thing.  Especially if you're even the tiniest
bit of a science geek (which I think covers the majority of my
friends).
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