Your parents had more fun than you.

[mattbell]

My high school biology teacher showed us this during a slow day in Bio AP.

What you're about to see is the process of messenger RNA transcription into proteins, as explained by interpretive dancers.

"Only rarely is there an opportunity to participate in a molecular happening" :D 

The dance part starts at 3:00 or so. The whole thing was a collaboration between the Stanford Chemistry and Drama departments in 1971.

Comments

[integreillumine.livejournal.com]

I posted this last year, I think! :)

[eccentrific.livejournal.com]

I've always known my parents had more fun than I will ever have. But the reasons have nothing to do with interpretive dance.

[martian687.livejournal.com]

At Mudd the freshman bio profs used to keep the day they showed the Protein Synthesis Dance a secret because the upperclassmen would crash the lecture, overcrowding the hall. Word still spread like wildfire, though, so by the second lecture of the day the hall would be packed.