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Old 04-26-2010, 10:44 PM
cheerfulgreek cheerfulgreek is offline
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DNA needs proteins to read the information it contains and help run the cell. But the manufacture of proteins itself really doesn't necessarily depend on DNA, and that's because it contains the information about what order to stitch amino acids together.

Oh, and in living things as we see them now, the "other" nucleic acid never combines the properties of DNA and protein, and that's because it can actually preserve information in the order of bases in a linear molecule. lol

I love this thread. (This part is accurate)
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Originally Posted by 1stSoon2BePhD View Post
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I, for one, did not understand where you were going with the DNA joke... and I have my bachelors in biochemistry.

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I was just saying that the manufacture of proteins doesn't always depend on DNA, when it actually does. It's just that proteins and DNA depend on each other. It's kinda like the "Chicken and the egg" puzzle.

And the other part was false, too.

No one got it.

eta: and what are you getting your PhD in?
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Last edited by cheerfulgreek; 04-27-2010 at 08:42 AM.
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