"A fossil was found in Samoa, / Of a species entountered no mo-a, / Possessed of a form / That was far above norm / But constructed so no man could know her.* / *The authors gratefully acknowledge that this study was made with the aid of a boost from the Budweiser Foundation for Social Improvement."
, 1955
"Amitosis is a means / For unlike quantities of genes / To enter daughter nuclei, / Causing many cells to die."
, 1955
"For a monk Gregor Mendel was odd, / Quitting cloisters to work with the sod. / Thus no treatise on ethics / But the laws of genetics / Were told off by the peas from his pod."
, 1955
"Haldane's Organic Soup", "Hid within a Primeval Tureen / (Though denied by the knave Oparin) / There arose DNA / Or a unit, let's say, / That Muller maintains was THE GENE. / Thus 'twas out of a chemical ooze / Nature fashioned this unit to use. / Was this gene, so unseen, DNA or protein? / That depends on the teacher you choose.", 1955
"I used to read my magazine / 'Til it was sprayed with Triazine. / LITERATURE CITED / 1. Bird / 2. Herskowitz and Schalet / 3. Rapaport / 4. Schalet"
, 1955
"On the second floor of Jordan Hall / Muller and Sonneborn have a ball. / Nucleus and Cytoplasm are a seller / With all that dough from Rockefeller!* / *No connection with any existing organization is implied.", 1955
"Said a man who is known as Lamarck, / Of giraffes eating leaves in a Park: / 'One thing is true / Of our friends in the zoo, / When the leaves are all gone they'll eat bark.'"
, 1955
"The Hot Polar Bears* / Fallout ash in the North left a bear / With a few sperm alive and to spare, / But when he met a she / And they made number three / The cub froze-- 'twas deficient for hair. / *Study made under the auspices of the International Commission for Radiological protection of bears."
, 1955
"There once was a fruit-fly named Joan, / Whose affair with a brash Protozoan / Gave results aggravating / When, soon after the mating, / All her offspring flew off as a clone."
, 1955