BSC-1005 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Molecular Motor, Guanine, Cytosine
10 Nov 2016
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Synthetic biology: a field and technology that seeks to recreate. Living systems are described in terms of their properties: order, biological functions synthetically, as well as design, and construct novel functions based on biological principles. adaptation, responsiveness, regulation, energy processing, reproduction, growth, and development. Having an understanding of life at the nanometer scale can begin our definition of biology. There is much to learn about biology by studying living systems. Life: a self-replicating molecular machine capable of carrying out one or more functions. At the molecular level, the most apparent self-replicating (reproduction) system is dna, short for deoxyribonucleic acid. Shape of a double helix. components are assembled in the right order, the assembly as a whole has an even greater function. A molecular machine alone as a particular function, but when these. This synergy (or property of working together) of biological molecules is what gives biological systems emergent properties, or new properties that emerge from collections of individual components.
