BI 150 Dan Nicholson: Machines, Organisms, Processes
Brain Inspired
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The Order of the Cell
Shurega's view that the order of the cell and ultimately of any multicellular organism is a consequence of or is basically is the amplification of order that already exists in the hereditary substance. Shurega reasoned, right, that in order for DNA or for the hereditary substance to be able to essentially store this information, it had to have an incredibly solid rigid molecular structure. And so from there, he says, well, that order then has to be passed on to, or has to be transmitted to the proteins. The entire cell has to, in some sense, manifest the order that is already encoded in the DNA. We need to rethink how we, how order is transmitted.
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