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Blood: The Incomparable
                                        Liquid of Life


                 molecule coming into possession of this particular amino acid
                                  950
                 sequence is 1 in 10 —in other words, impossible!
                    Murray Eden from the Massachusetts Institute of
                 Technology (MIT) comments about this subject:
                    Hemoglobin has two chains, called alpha and beta. A minimum of
                    120 mutations would be required to convert alpha to beta. At least
                    34 of those changes require changeovers in two or three nucleotides.
                    Yet, if a single nucleotide change occurs through mutation, the


                                                    Hemoglobin molecule


                 As in all other biochemical struc-
                 tures, the complex structure of
                 hemoglobin is too sensitively bal-
                 anced to tolerate any randomly
                 occurring mutation. Any accidental
                 chemical change in its structure
                 would immediately turn this valu-
                 able protein into a functionless
                 assortment of amino acids.






                                 amino acid sequence of the hemoglobin molecule











                     Amino acid 1  Amino acid 2  Amino acid 3  Amino acid 4  Amino acid 5  Amino acid 6




                                                                       Adnan
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