Page 61 - The Miracle in the Cell

HARUN YAHYA

he proteins that humans ingest for their nutri-
tion are not all used by the body in the same
form. First of all, they are decomposed into
smaller molecules called amino acids. Later
on, these amino acids are brought together in
new arrangements to make any one of the
200,000 different types of protein encoded in the DNA which may
be needed at that particular time. The name given to this complex
process, each step of which is a miracle in itself, is protein synthesis.
Each step is broken down into tens of other steps. Without even real-
izing it, during your daily routine, these processes are repeated over
and over again in the 100 trillion cells throughout your body.

A Giant Factory that Can't Be Seen with the

Naked Eye

In order to understand this topic more fully, let's remember that
the cell's organizational setup for protein production can be compared
to a giant factory that can manufacture hundreds of different products
all at the same time. Obviously, no factory on Earth can perfectly man-
ufacture such a wide range of products. In order to understand the
cell's perfect production methods, we can imagine a science-fiction
model factory that possesses similar features and abilities.
Such a theoretical factory would work as follows: An external
command arrives at the factory, and the decision is made to manufac-
ture (for instance) a fighter plane. The plane's technical details are
stored in the factory's computer, along with all its other measurements
and specifications. The computer presents all these calculations and
measurements into a plan that the production-and-assembly robots
can understand, and sends these plans to them by special transport
systems.

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