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The Mir a cle in the Cell Mem brane
They're just atoms strung togeth er to make mol e cu les.
Where'd they get the chutz pah to become keep ers of the gate? 2
After touch ing on these impor tant mat ters, Schroed er
describes the error of the mate ri al ist edu ca tion he
received.
Mem brane design is abso lute ly bril liant. I've been taught
that nature did it all. But there is a catch to this logic of a lais -
sez-faire nature. In the pres ence of water, they [lip ids and
phos phol i pids that make up the cell mem brane] do align to
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