“According to Carl Sagan, one of our best-known scientists, ‘The information content of a simple cell has been established as around one trillion bits, comparable to about 100 million pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’ [emphasis mine].1 What Sagan is talking about here is the information contained within the genetic code (DNA) of a microscopic Escherichia coli bacterium that lives in our intestines.” Read more here:...
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If you have experienced any lazy time during the holidays, don’t worry! Check out these amazing machines that are always working in your body. As one biological animator/researcher says “So no matter how lazy you feel, you’re not really intrinsically doing nothing.” (See video 2 below) Darwin thought cells were simply small blobs that were like the smallest building blocks (bricks) for the construction of the body. Scientists in his day had no idea about the...
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