Making friends with your bugs

If you give an E. Coli a petri plate, it will ask for a warm place to grow.

If you give it a warm place to grow, it might start off too slow.

If it starts off too slow, it may ask for a bit of Luria soup.

If you provide it some soup, it will ask for a ride on your loop.

If you offer your loop, it will ask for a spin

If you give it a spin, out of happiness, it will make a twin.

If you feed its twin, its twin will divide into two, too..

If you leave them in the roux, they will make a bonafide zoo

If you streak this crew out onto a dozen or so plates, all the little bugs will make lots, and lots more mates

If you pick off a few from these plates and stick them in a heat block, you will most definitely give them a shock

If you give them a shock, they might take up your gene

If they take up your gene, they just might turn green

If you turn them green, they will give off a nice sheen

If they give off a sheen, they will want to be seen

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If you give an E. Coli a petri plate, it will ask for a warm place to grow…

If you give it the right conditions to grow, it just may start to glow.