Page 120 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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hroughout the day, without your ever
being aware of it, your cells carry out count-
less processes with an extraordinary care
and sense of responsibility, for you to con-

tinue living in a healthy state. One of these
processes is cell division, which permits
growth and tissue repair. DNA's ability to
be copied enables damaged tissue to repair
itself by means of cells dividing and multi-
plying, during the course of which the orig-
inal genetic information is transmitted to
every new cell.
Most of the cells in the human body di-
vide and multiply. During the course of cell
division, the replication of the DNA in the
cell nucleus is carried out in such an aston-

ishingly organized and disciplined way.
Even when the human embryo is no more
than a single cell, it divides into two, and
progressively, from two to four, to eight . . .
and an exact copy of the original DNA
needs to be produced for the new cell. In
fact, shortly before a cell divides, DNA
replicates itself and transmitsit to the new