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if there was ever any question that we were related...

Apparently when given suitable inspiration, my father fancies himself quite the poet:

An entomologist of caddisfly fame
with MS-FLA next to his name
had found his nirvana
with Gobind Khorana
translating the peptide chain.

But Old Holley intervened
and made quite a scene
and said their endeavor was folly.

"I hate to disdain
your nucleotide claim,
but your peptide ain't mono
it's poly!"

Eureka! they said
we'll try this instead,
Old Holley has made it explicit!
So the prize they received
(not quite as conceived)
was not just a double,
but triplet.

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