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Re:I should have loved biology by MereInterest on Saturday July 09, 2022 @02:58PM (#32038203)
Proteins are the runtime on which DNA is executed, because they are the mechanism that "reads" DNA. But proteins are the compiled output of DNA, because they are the result of "reading" DNA. So the DNA defines the runtime environment that is necessary for DNA to run.
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Re:I should have loved biology by feet on Saturday July 09, 2022 @04:36PM (#32039056)
RNA actually has a large role to play in going from DNA to protein. Its been suspected that the first life was RNA based because RNA can actually form functional site similar to proteins to do enzymatic reactions. RNA is some of the secret sauce to many of these systems
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Re:I should have loved biology by MereInterest on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:40AM (#32068418)
Definitely true, and my comment was without a doubt extremely oversimplified and wrong in several respects in an attempt to explain the analogy. Thank you for giving the clarification on it.
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Re:I should have loved biology by hoseja on Monday July 11, 2022 @08:13AM (#32055085)
Perhaps the ribosome would be the runtime?
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Re:I should have loved biology by bsedlm on Saturday July 09, 2022 @04:21PM (#32038928)
yes exactly. you've explained this much better than I did
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