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include to operate like an engine and set up a mechanical force
within the cell.
Once again, reflect on this structure of a great many parts,
every one of which complements the others in an exceedingly

rational way. With enormous expertise, millions of atoms com-
bine to form very different structures inside a volume itself too
small to be seen with the naked eye. They then assemble these
structures with the assistance of other molecules. The result is
an exceedingly complex machine, whose workings we shall
briefly summarize.

All the complex machines you know consist of a number
of parts. Open a computer, for example, and you'll see a num-
ber of circuits, cables and pieces of metal all combined together
in complex ways. To one who does not know much about com-

puters these may not mean much, but a computer engineer will
know what purpose each complicated connection serves. He
will know, for instance, that if a wire is attached to the wrong
place, the computer will be unable to function properly. Every
component inside is, therefore, of the greatest importance for
the computer to run properly. In a similar way, every compo-

nent making up the cell's minute hairs is of vital importance if
the system is to function properly. The absence of any one
structure will mean that, either the hair cannot move the cell
and the substances around it, or else the hair will fail to develop
in the first place.

Biochemists have performed many experiments to deter-
mine what happens to these hairs in the absence of any of their
components. For example, if the dynein protein arms separate,
the hairs will not move. In the absence of the protein nexin,
which serves as a bridge between the microtubules, the micro-