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Photosynthesis Boys Are Back

Flip Side Science (Jonathan Rylander and friends)
Westwood High School, Austin, TX

We are all seniors at Westwood High School in Austin, Texas. We have been blessed with one of the most entertaining and talented Biology teachers in this nation and she is constantly challenging us to find ways to make the monotonous memory part of Biology fun. Therefore, we decided to write a song about Photosynthesis to present to the class. After doing so, she informed us there was a contest we could enter our song into. However, we do apologize about the singing; we all plan on not having music as our careers for the future.

Photosynthesis Boys Are Back

(tune: "I Want it That Way" by The Backstreet Boys)

You are my fire,
Your light is dyre,
Believe me when I say,
I need your sun rays.

But we are a multi part,
Process, Photosynthesis, (oh yeah)
Light reaction energy,
In the form of ATP.

Got sunlight,
Ain't nothin' but a process,
Got sunlight,
With the release of gases,
Got sunlight,
I never want to hear you say,
Chloroplasts won't accept you anyway.

You are my fire,
Your light is dyre,
It's not slowwwwwww,
700 nanometers
Because it comes in our sun rays.

Got sunlight,
Ain't nothin' but a process,
Got sunlight,
With the release of gases,
Got sunlight,
I never want to hear you say,
Chloroplasts won't accept you anyway.

Now I can see that I'm falling apart,
From the way that I used to be,
Once water but now I want you to know,
CO2 fixated, oxygen released,

Through my stomata,
Not the oblongata,
Believe when I say,
I provide sugar from sun rays.

Got sunlight,
Ain't nothin' but a process,
Got sunlight,
With the release of gases,
Got sunlight,
I never want to hear you say,
Chloroplasts won't accept you anyway.