Re:I should have loved biology
by jyounker on Saturday July 09, 2022 @02:48PM
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> In biology the code is the DNA and RNA, whereas the hardware is the proteins.
This distinction isn't as clear as you think. The active parts of ribosomes (the machines that translate mRNA into proteins) are catalytic RNA. There are organisms that use RNA to store templates (RNA viruses).
This distinction isn't as clear as you think. The active parts of ribosomes (the machines that translate mRNA into proteins) are catalytic RNA. There are organisms that use RNA to store templates (RNA viruses).