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various functionless sequences. Yet these

very special arrangements permit proteins
to come into existence, essential to human
beings' vital functions.
Depending on their own particular se-
quences, proteins are building blocks in the
various regions of the body and assume re-
sponsibility for different tasks. For example,
proteins compose the enzymes that combine
to accelerate processes in the body, antibod-
ies that fight disease, and hormones that

regulate the functioning of the organs. Each
one of these has its own individual, essen-
tial importance for the body.
Proteins absorbed in food do not work
in the body in their existing form. They are
first taken into special laboratories in the
cell and broken down into smaller molecu-
les- amino acids. Then, these amino acids
are recombined in different sequences to
constitute whichever of the 200,000 kinds of
proteins encoded in DNA is required at any
given time. This mechanism, every stage of

which is a miracle in its own right, is known
as protein synthesis.
Protein synthesis is the main job of the
cells, because proteins carry out just about
all the work inside cells. Tens of thousands
of different kinds of proteins in the human
body are repaired when required and re-
placed with new ones when they grow old.