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(Nucleotides are the building blocks of the amino acids that regu-
late all inherited features in living things.) In a normal-sized bacte-
rium, There may be up 3 million nucleotides. 11 There are 5,000
genes in a single chromosome of the intestinal bacterium Escherichia
coli, the subject of research and studies since the early 1990s. (Genes

are special sections constituting the DNA belonging to a particular
organ or protein.) All the features of the bacterium are encoded in
these 5,000 genes.
This coded information is essential to the bacterium's survival,
and its slightest change may be fatal. The length of the helix that

carries this information is 1,400 microns—in a cell only 2 to 3 mi-
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crons in size. Don't forget that 1 micron is a unit equivalent to just
0.001 millimeter (0.000039 of an inch). This data chain, the product
of a special Creation, is squeezed into an organism thousands of
times smaller than itself. The processes that take place inside this

marvel of Creation show the existence of a perfect organization and
a conscious whole.

The length of DNA carrying data inside a
bacterium 2 to 3 microns long is 1,400 mi-
crons. The processes that take place
Bacterium
inside this marvel of Creation reveal
THE MICROWORLD MIRACLE Regulator gene Regulator Operator Coding
a perfect organization.

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