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OK. But I was talking about "get up and move around and bite things" life. For us creatures that develop from the uniting of sperm and egg, comes a unique DNA, that blindly draws what it needs into itself, and then uses those simple building blocks (thanks, Lather) to make ever more complex structures using a template that is encoded into a complex string of simple nucleic acids, and decoded into complex strings of simple nucleic acids. I envision something as fundamentally simple as a zipper or a string of audio tape making an entire whale or elephant or human just by running proteins along itself. It boggles my mind. The way that cells "know" where to go because of gradients in enzymes that "push" or "pull" them into position ~ an error can make a Siamese twin, or a baby without a skull, countless, countless errors, all of which can mean spontaneous abortion, but, here we are, for the most part error-free in transcription. Boggle. |
