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10-24-2006, 11:32 PM #4OPSenior Member
To the science majors/scientists/science geeks out there...
ok since most people arent science majors i will give you a watered down example of what im talking about.
The only reason these objects we call our bodies know how to grow is because of a molecule called Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) that exists in many copies in every cell that makes up our bodies.
lets break it down.
Deoxyribose, which is a sugar derived from ribose (which is basically a carbon-oxygen ring)
Purine/Pyrimidine base, which is another ring with electronegative atoms to induce hydrogen bonding so the double strand can exist stabley (coincidence?)
Phosphodiester backbone, which is very stable and very negative, allowing it to regulated by postive amino acids (argenine & lysine) by condensing and relaxing the DNA. This is BASICALLY how gene expression is regulated... if anyone is more interested i will explain further.... (ever wonder why we all start from one cell, but as we grow our eye cells and our toe nail cells are completely different?)
This is just one example, but a good one to show those who dont know that life is made of chemistry...
Now who would like to tell me that all this just happened because of a huge explosion?
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