OK, I think readers would pick up the multitasking in the midst of boredom, but I'm not sure they would get to the metaphor of the bubbles in the tubes. Too much is automated today. I understand that the technical fallout from the human genome project has resulted in sequencers that would spit out bases probably faster than our poet could read. I think they will pick up on the expressed/unexpressed metaphor, whether we're dealing with junk sequences (introns vs. exons), feedback loops for gene regulation, or dominance and recessiveness as nu-be suggested. I thought from the start that iambic was all wrong. Definitely anapestic, or else dactylic, since the beginning and end of each codon are crucial. Is he in the mood for a dactylic waltz, or an anapestic cha-cha-CHA!?