Page 246 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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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