Page 30 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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any enzyme catalyzes the synthesis of more than 100 other molecules per
second. In ten minutes, a sizeable fraction of total mass of a metabolizing
bacterial cell has been synthesized. The information content of a simple
cell had been estimated as around 10 12 bits, comparable to about a hun-
dred million pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica. 8

The nucleus inside the cell bears the DNA, the most important ge-
netic material. Mitochondria inside the cell turn glucose (in the form of
food products) into energy packets. Microscopic tubes extend through-
out the cell, constituting vital pathways along which proteins and oth-
er required substances can be carried to the appropriate location. In ad-
dition, the billions of cells in our bodies build all their systems out of
molecules, at the same time consistently maintaining and repairing
themselves. As well as performing their
own tasks, they also renew them-
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selves. They also obtain their
own energy.
Prof. Werner Gitt, direct- Tissue
or of the German Federal Ins-

titute of Physics and Tech-
nology, emphasizes how
the cell is far superior to
any machinery made by
human beings: "The biolog-
ical energy conversion sys-
tem is brilliantly and
cleverly designed
that energy engi-
neers can only
watch, fascinated.
Nobody has yet