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• Select Layers of power; Cells and how to run them.

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  Layers of power; Cells and how to run them.

  From:The Economist

  Aug. 7, 20211,594 words Article 1180LCells are the basic units of life, and provide it with the mechanisms through which food and sunlight are turned into usable energy THE CHEMICAL reactions on which life depends need a place to happen. That place is the...
• Select The Search for LUCA

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  The Search for LUCA

  Author:Matt RidleyFrom:Natural History (Vol. 109, Issue 9)

  Nov. 20002,150 words Article Did the Last Universal Common Ancestor look like a bacterium--or like one of your own cells? What was the first organism with DNA like? Scientists have traditionally assumed it was some kind of primitive bacterium....
• Select Dissing a loaded label for some unicellular life: prominent biologist calls 'prokaryote' outdated term

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  Dissing a loaded label for some unicellular life: prominent biologist calls 'prokaryote' outdated term

  Author:Tina Hesman SaeyFrom:Science News (Vol. 175, Issue 8)

  Apr. 11, 20091,136 words Article Norman Pace has a problem with prokaryotes. It's not that Pace has anything against the organisms themselves. The microbiologist and RNA scientist from the University of Colorado at Boulder has made a career of...
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  Small is powerful

  Author:Stephan ReebsFrom:Natural History (Vol. 112, Issue 10)

  Dec. 2003210 words Brief article Sometimes small is ineffectual. But not when it comes to photosynthesis. The single-celled cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus--0.00002 inch in diameter--is the smallest known organism capable of photosynthesis. Yet numbers...
• Select Nuclear reaction; Evolution

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  Nuclear reaction; Evolution

  From:The Economist (Vol. 413, Issue 8912)

  Nov. 8, 2014756 words Column 1300LHow complex cells evolved is a mystery. A new idea may come close to the truth WHEN David Baum was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, he pondered, as students are wont to in the small hours after the bar...