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                                                                         Cytoplasm
              The genetic system  THE COMPLEX STRUCTURE OF A CELL
              does not consist of
              DNA alone. In order   Cell            Chromosomes
              for life to exist,
              there must also be  Nucleus                                       Mitochondria
              enzymes to read the
              DNA chain, copy it
              and produce pro-
              teins in accord with
              these copies. This                    mRNA
              very important char-                      DNA
              acteristic is referred
              to as the cell's "irre-
              ducible complexity."
                   The genetic system does not consist of DNA alone. The enzymes
               to read the DNA code, the messenger RNA to be produced by this read-
               ing, the ribosome to which the messenger RNA travels and bonds with,
               the transporter RNA that carries the amino acids to be used in that pro-
               duction to the ribosome, and the highly complex enzymes that permit
               countless other secondary functions-all must be present in the same en-
               vironment. Moreover, such an environment can only be a cell, where all
               the requisite raw materials and energy are isolated, available, and com-
               pletely controlled in all respects. An organic substance can reproduce
               itself only in a fully formed cell together with all its various organelles.
               This means that the first cell with its all extraordinarily complex struc-
               tures must have come into being in a single moment.
                   In his book Chance and Necessity, the Nobel Prize-winning French
               biologist Jacques Monod elaborates:
                   The code is meaningless unless translated. The modern cell's translating
                   machinery consists of at least 50 macromolecular components, which are
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