Its really amazing, how many organic molecules are some variation of carbons in a line with oxygens stuck somewhere to change the geometry and then filled out with hydrogen's on the outside, and how often the carbons come in a multiple of 6. Its like maybe it's all the same thing and all of biology is just tricks to snip it here, add it there, and run the machinery by fitting the shapes into slots. We call it glucose or galactise, or a disaccharide, or ascorbic acid, or... Endless. But all the same basic punchcard, just different lengths.
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Absolutely... carbon's remarkably versatile #chemistry has made it a major building block for life.
Speaking of "punch card," protein transcription of DNA is exactly that... It spits out a long "string", that then, due to both polar and nonpolar interactions, "wraps" itself up into a specific shape.
Yep. That's all I can say - yep. I've read about it, and its magnificent, but also somewhat past my complexity threshold
What kind of scientist are you? I literally just sent off an email to a graduate admissions office trying to get them to tell me the route to take into their graduate biology program