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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

Figure 105.
When a new protein needs to be
produced, messengers which are
themselves proteins, carry the re-
quest for protein production to the
cells of the organ concerned.

is used. This language has an alphabet which scientists designate as con-
sisting of four letters, A, G, C and T. The production of the appropriate pro-
tein is of the greatest importance in order that there will be no impairment
of the processes inside the cell, and for the need to be met in an accurate
manner—in short, to maintain the cell’s very survival. Therefore, after the
message arrives concerning the need for a particular protein to be pro-
duced, the correct information needs to be selected and extracted from the
DNA.
But who makes that selection? An enzyme known as RNA polymerase,
whose work is exceptionally difficult. First and foremost, it must select the

letters regarding the protein to be produced from among the DNA mole-
cule, which consists of 3 billion letters. The way that RNA polymerase finds
and extracts information of just a few lines from those 3 billion units of
DNA information is comparable to finding a few specific lines in a foreign
language, with no description or index of it being available, from an ency-
clopedia consisting of 1,000 volumes.
3. In order for the copying process to begin, a very important obstacle

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