Monday, October 5, 2020

Sort of like us humans........................

      Ironically, the very features that enable a cell to read DNA are the features that make it incomprehensible to humans—to chemists, in particular.  DNA, as Shrödinger had predicted, was a chemical built to defy chemists, a molecule of exquisite contradictions—monotonous and yet infinitely varied, repetitive to the extreme and yet idiosyncratic to the extreme.

-Siddhartha Mukherjee,  The Gene:  An Intimate History

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