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Quotes from Power, Sex, Suicide — Nick Lane

b. 1967

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Proteins are the crowning glory of life.

Power, Sex, Suicide (2005)

The sequence of letters in a gene specifies the sequence of amino acids in a protein.

Power, Sex, Suicide (2005)

Without programmed cell death, the bonds that bind cells in complex multicellular organisms might never have ebvolved.

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The information encoded in DNA spells out the molecular structure of proteins. This, said Crick, is the 'central dogma' of all biology: genes code for proteins.

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This membrane, so vanishingly thin, looms large... for bacteria use it for generating their energy.

Power, Sex, Suicide (2005)

According to mitochondrial gene analysis, Neanderthal man didn't interbreed with Homo Sapiens...

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From around the mid 1990s, researchers discovered that apoptosis is... governed... by the mitochondria. ...[T]he failure to commit apoptosis is the root cause of cancer.

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Different species have transferred different genes to the nucleus, but all species with mitochondria have... retained... the same core contingent of mitochondrial genes.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nick Lane (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.