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structure of proteins. Amino
acids, on the other hand, are
raw materials. Nevertheless,
there is no mechanism for the
production of proteins. To
consider the existence of
RNA sufficient for protein
production is as nonsensical
as expecting a car to assemble
itself by simply throwing the
blueprint onto a heap of parts
The above picture shows protein chains
produced in the ribosome. piled on top of each other. A
blueprint cannot produce a
car all by itself without a factory and workers to assemble the parts
according to the instructions contained in the blueprint; in the same way,
the blueprint contained in RNA cannot produce proteins by itself without
the cooperation of other cellular components which follow the
instructions in the RNA.
Proteins are produced in the ribosome factory with the help of many
enzymes, and as a result of extremely complex processes within the cell.
The ribosome is a complex cell organelle made up of proteins. This leads,
therefore, to another unreasonable supposition-that ribosomes, too,
should have come into existence by chance at the same time. Even Nobel
Prize winner Jacques Monod, who was one of the most fanatical
defenders of evolution, explained that protein synthesis can by no means
be considered to depend merely on the information in the nucleic acids:
The code is meaningless unless translated. The modern cell's translating
machinery consists of at least 50 macromolecular components, which are
themselves coded in DNA: the code cannot be translated otherwise than
by products of translation themselves. It is the modern expression of omne
vivum ex ovo [all life from eggs, or idiomatically, what came first, the chicken
or the egg?]. When and how did this circle become closed? It is exceedingly
difficult to imagine. 13

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