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Life possibly came as a product of emergent behavior, as shown by the Miller-Urey Experiment It is interesting to try simulating life and all the processes that gave rise to it.
- Related to this is the importance of self-assembly in biological processes
- Life cannot exist under equilibrium.
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Protein Folding is fascinating considering it only arises from the amino acids encoded in the DNA. Interestingly, it is also subject to natural selection and sometimes self-assembly such that a particular protein performs a particular purpose based on its structure.
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Engineering new proteins that can carry out virtually any chemical reaction is an interesting possibility for the future.
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Enzymes are basically small biological machines.
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Protein gradients drive ATP synthase like a water wheel, which then facilitates energy synthesis.
Topics
- The Properties of Life from a Biological Perspective
- Enzymes as Machines for Cellular Processes
- Metabolic Processes within the Cell
- The Parts of the Cell and their Processes
- Drugs and Medicine