I cannot explain who I am or what I do.
My presence hails from ancients.
I'm ironically new.
My process takes much patience.
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For I was of low probability.
Just a mere possibility
Deck stacked against me
Chances so low, success was an sterility
Infertility
Yet, I made it to what I'm now, from hostility
Maybe tough once I've started, but there's still fragility
I need virility
Vigor and Good Sense, gave me ability
Of mobility
So, I moved to newer lands with more tranquility
Drinking, Breathing, from a land, facilitating facility
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I was nothing but tenacious
My environment's outrageous
The language I posses
That I express
Is of the first archaics.
Though I may start as one, I morph into mosaic
Art forms from life forms, do you want to hear me say it?
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You want me to relay it?
When we all show and display it?
Who I am? What I do?
You were me and I was You.
The language that we share
Passing on and making pairs
We're so different, yet the same,
Too many ways I can't explain.
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The confession
Is expression
We're unraveled and authenticated
No more consolidated
For we originated
With blueprints bundled and capped
Bound together and stacked
Folded over and back
Pair counted, intact
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For what we got, is deeper in our bones
From our lot, we grow into different zones
Splitting
and Getting
Multiplying
Committing
Not denying
The bidding
We did as instructed
Kept things in order, for that's how we're conducted
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What? Hold on? Do you still barely know?
Okay, fine then. The secret I let go
Is our environments, make our world, yes our homes
Time to get with the plan. I'm talking about our chromosomes
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Yo, hold the phone.
Did you not get the tone?
Those were wrapped and bundled, balled around our own histones
Like a bola to stones
Kept up tight and curled,
DNA's only been expressed when hurled
Opened up
And Untwirled
The protein splits the fork, helicase
Then add polymerase
To follow up the primase
Complimentary Base
Pairing
Is scary
So we gotta be wary
Not to mismatch the bonds, fairing
Us a better chance with our hydrogen bonds
You can't re-zip improper structure, that's something we're not fond
Of, fine now, you want my name of who I am, and what I do?
Well it's about time. You were me, and I was You.
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I'm a Zygote
I'm a lifeboat
DNA wrote
Instructions to put us together,
It's the Carbon goat
Whether I've been planned or not
Sewn from wild oats
That's an anecdote
Like an antidote
I stem from the beginning
But I'm not verbose
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Two halfs became whole
I was forged in the dark
Not a single speck of light, not a single, little, spark
So I recombined, my journey start
Started out blind
I have no eyes
I felt to move my part
Through a cilia pathway
I had to go, I could not stay
If I grew in the fallopian
It would cause a dystopian
Future for me and the body where I'm livin'
Moved down to the uterus, it's the place I was given
To start being given
An abundance with access to nutrients
Enriched with a supply of blood, I began to grow by the increments
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For I had no lungs, and yet I breathed
I had no mouth, but I still feed
With such limitations, you wanna know how I handled?
Simple, they passed through a variety of channels
Like manholes
That cover a city's streets
Ion Channels
Pumping: water, sugar, 02, treats
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I was blessed, as there was nothing insipid
Brought across my membrane, Bilayer Phospholipid
That's a part, that was the first of mosaics
Now your cells, tissues, organs, systems show different displayments
Of different arrangements
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From 1, 2, 4, 8
Now look in the mirror, 30 trillion, that's pretty great
There's no debate
We're all from actions of that which did create
Beget and Begotten
But not ever forgotten
For if you're reading this, you reached the fertile land, that had not yet rotten
Doubled, multiplied, organelles, yeah we got them
Inches for you, but for me, it was miles of travel
Unloading the histones, Expressing what DNA did unravel
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Let's continue and move on
Making proteins from codons
Yet, let's leave it to the experts when it comes to quotes
For every human, started as a zygote
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Author's Notes: I started writing this around March. It's original writing was still of the same content, but it lacked meter, flow, rhythm. I'd read a few sources for help in the creation of this. Please, check them out if you'd like. Information is empowering, especially in not just the right hands, but the right minds.
Histone. National Human Genome Research Institute. https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/histone#:~:text=A%20histone%20is%20a%20protein,chromosome%20a%20more%20compact%20shape.
What is DNA replication? yourgenome. https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/what-is-dna-replication/
Cells Can Replicate Their DNA Precisely. © 2014 Nature Education. https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/cells-can-replicate-their-dna-precisely-6524830/#:~:text=How%20is%20DNA%20replicated%3F,of%20the%20new%20DNA%20segment.
DNA Replication. National Human Genome Research Institute. https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/DNA-Replication#:~:text=Definition&text=DNA%20replication%20is%20the%20process,with%20its%20own%20complete%20genome.
Zygote. © 2001-2022 BiologyOnline. https://www.biologyonline.com/dictionary/zygote
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