imate cells—tive efforts of nucleotides, transcription of DNA into RNA—evolved just once and ayed pretty ure. Aste Frencicist Jacques Monod put it, only : “Anyt is true of E.
coli must be true of eleps, except more so.”
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It cannot be said too often: all life is one. t is, and I suspect o be, t profound true statement there is.
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