Under the Sun

By James Barber, Eleni Kursten, Rachel Harris



Lyrics:
The seaweed is always greener
Were you ever wonderin’ why
Cuz chlorophyll’s always keener
To take up the sun oh my!
This pigment is in a chloroplast
Absorbs every color but green
Stomata part of the leaves cast
That’s where gas exchange is seen
Oh oh
Thank you dear plants
Thank You dear Plants
For giving to me
All that I need
Oxygen to breathe
H2O and CO2
Makes glucose and O2 for me and you
The time youre devotin’
Is really worth noting
Thank you dear plants
Light reactions occur in grana
The light hits the chlorophyll
Electrons excite like santa
Passed down the electron mill
Movement converts to short term energy
As NADPH and ATP
Split water makes O2 for me
Now carbon carbon bonds form yippee!
Thank you dear plants
Thank You dear Plants
For giving to me
All that I need
Oxygen to breathe
H2O and CO2
Makes glucose and O2 for me and you
The time youre devotin’
Is really worth notin’
Thank you dear plants
(Pause)

To stroma we go
You don’t need light here
Just carbon to fix here
With Rubisco
The calvin cycle is the name
Making sugar is the game
Photosystem
First two then one
Under the sun
The plants produce food
Without them we’re screwed
Base of the food chain
Without them much pain
Give veggies and fruit
Which is such a hoot
They regenerate oxygen
(Yeah!)
They take in CO2
Which helps me and you
Lowers global warming
So heat is not swarming
Evolved long ago
So cells could grow
With limited resources
(background music break)
Thank you dear plants
Thank you dear Plants
For giving to me
All that I need
Oxygen to breathe
H2O and CO2
Makes glucose and O2 for me and you
The time youre devotin’
Is really worth notin
Thank you dear plants
They are essential
Lots of potential
Thank you dear plants
Provide energy
So we can be
Controls CO2
Allows cows to moo
Let us survive
Without them we’d die
Thank you dear plants