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| Life is based on carbon's ability to form diverse structures and an endless number of different carbon based molecules. The study of carbon containing compounds has come to be known as Organic Chemistry. The food that we intake, the fragrances we inhale, the colors we see are predominantly due to organic compounds. |
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| The molecules of life namely nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), proteins, carbohydrates and lipids are the building blocks of cells and all living things are made from cells, the chemical factories of life. Putting it into personal perspective, we contain about 10 million million nucleated cells. Within each of these cell nuclei is a complete set of genetic information that makes us who we are.
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| If you reflect on the fact that everything chemical in your body is manufactured, moved, modified and used by proteins that are built from scratch from a sequence of amino acids precisely dictated by the DNA sequence, you will see why we say that DNA holds the secret of life.
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