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HARUN YAHYA
smooth centrioles
endoplasmic
reticulum
ribosomes
plasma smooth
membrane endoplasmic
reticulum
mitochondrion
nuclear
pore
lysosome
golgi body
rough
endoplasmic
reticulum
nuclear
membrane nucleus nucleolus
Figure 1.3 Generalized diagram of an animal cell
The factory's production and operating systems have been per-
fectly designed. The directors, engineers, workers-in short, the entire
staff-are made up of robots and computers able to perform their
duties faultlessly, and are so advanced that we would encounter them
only in science fiction films.
Production in the cell takes place just as this imaginary factory.
Specialized and complex protein molecules, called enzymes, take the
place of the factory's robots and machines. The cell's knowledge of
how to manage itself is stored in a large, helical molecule called DNA,
highly specialized for this process and formed from the assembly of
numerous atoms.
Now, let's look at the structure of this bewilderingly miraculous
molecule and the processes it manages to carry out.
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