Page 146 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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After this, every time a cell divides and two new cells are formed,
an exact copy of all the genes is produced, and this copy is transmitted

to every new cell. For that reason, all the cells in your body possess ex-
actly the same genes and contain the whole of the genetic program. 104
Although the cells in your body are in different locations (the kid-
neys, liver or arm, for example), they carry the same information. But
different types of cell use different sections of the same data bank, per-
forming different tasks in the light of those instructions. Just as in com-
puters, the original of the program is not taken outside the main proc-

essing center--in this case, the DNA. Instead, new copies of the DNA is
produced and are taken to wherever they are required.
Human cells vary greatly in their structure. For instance, in addi-
tion to having different shapes, liver cells, muscle cells and nerve cells
also produce different proteins and carry out very different biochemi-
cal processes. But they all have just one single variety of DNA inherit-
ed from the original fertilized egg. Every cell uses different regions of
the total information in that DNA. If cells did not use different parts of
the identical genetic information and multiplied in the form of just one
type of cell type, a human being might develop as a mass of bone or a

collection of skin. However, as revealed by Allah, the Compassionate
and Merciful, in the verse "We created man in the finest mould" (Surat
at-Tin, 4), He has created us as living things with esthetic, symmetrical
and superior features.

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During cell division, every cell possesses all the complex contents
described earlier, including mRNA, tRNA, ribosomes, proteins, and en-
zymes. Some 5,000 of these are produced in one second. 105 In the words
of Prof. Gerald Schroeder, "The miraculous nature of life is found in its