{"id":596,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:51:33","slug":"basic-unit-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Basic Unit of Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">To be alive, an organism must replicate and be subjected to natural selection pressures. This requires the capacity to take information acquired over generations and store it in memory, for purpose of survival.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Synthetically made replication molecules, XNA&#8217;s, can pass genes on to their descendants and are thus capable of evolution. X stands for Xeno, which means &#8216;foreign&#8217;. It has its own specific enzymes, that DNA would not recognize.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid (DNA). nuDNA is a molecule found in <a href=\"?p=771\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">almost<\/span><\/a> all human cells&#8217; nuclei. Stretched out (\u22482 meters), it is the longest molecule in the body.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The specific sequence of nucleotides of about 2% of this DNA molecule contains all the info-code for producing <\/span><\/span><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">all basic blocks<\/span><\/span><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">, the proteins, to build all the body&#8217;s cells. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Almost 98% of this molecule acts as the moment-to-moment <a href=\"?p=637\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">manual and &#8216;radio&#8217; operating system for living life<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">sending + receiving information 24\/7\u00a0 to &amp; from <a href=\"?p=642\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">everywhere in the cosmos<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">It can <a href=\"?p=649\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">repair and heal itself<\/span><\/a>, and improve the <a href=\"?p=589\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">structure of the water molecules<\/span><\/a> that comprise 70% of your body&#8217;s contents. <a href=\"?p=762\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">R&amp;D showed<\/span><\/a> that it improves yr state of health. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The nucleic acids DNA &amp; RNA, in each cell, are polymers that can be broken down into monomers known as nucleotides. Each nucleotide contains 3 components: a sugar, an amine, and a phosphate, as shown in the figure below.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The 3 components of a DNA Nucleotide:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Sugar%20molecule.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"631\" \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"?p=405\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more on the next few pages&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be alive, an organism must replicate and be subjected to natural selection pressures. This requires the capacity to take information acquired over generations and store it in memory, for purpose of survival. Synthetically made replication molecules, XNA&#8217;s, can pass genes on to their descendants and are thus capable of evolution. 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