Cells:.A
cell
is a small usually microscopic mass of protoplasm
bounded externally.(surrounded).by
a semipermeable.membrane,
usually including one or more
nuclei,
cytoplasm
and various other organelles
with their products, capable alone or interacting with other cells of performing
all the fundamental functions of life and forming the smallest structural
unit of living matter capable of functioning independently, during the
process we've labeled as mitosis.
Cells are capacitors,
electrically functioning organisms.
Dean Kenyon, biochemist."We
have not the slightest chance of a chemical evolutionary origin for even
the simplest cells."
Every cell performs thousands
of processes a second and is so efficient
it only stores enough food for 3 seconds, otherwise cells would have to
be larger than what they are. Each cell is a hologram
of the entire universe.
A cell is able to read the
DNA.code
by a mechanism we don't understand and in turn select the correct amino
acids joining them together to make a particular protein.
Cells are more organized
than a large city with supply trucks coming and going, waste removal processes,
electrical and plumbing maintenance, new building construction, older building
renovations and transportation systems, etc.
They know how to do these things because of the
invisible patterns behind them.
Scientific American.(sciam.com).August,
2001."The simplest
living cell is so complex that
supercomputer
models may never simulate its behavior perfectly."
Cells have rotary motors
that generate energy necessary for its sustenance; just like cities have
power plants. Cells have a collection of pumps to import amino acids, sugars,
vitamins and other nutrients needed for living.
A cell's computer memory
bank must maintain its original programming in order to pass instructions
from generation to generation. Obviously they worked better seven thousand
years ago, than our man made computers do today. If a cell fails to generate
a living descendent, all of its biological information will be lost. It
had to work right the first time and every time since, or life would not
be here. With machines man makes, if they do not work right, they can go
back
to the drawing board. If one of a cell's critical machines fails to
function properly, results are disastrous. They must work and work as designed
to function or we would not be here. Thus, the importance of proper nutrition
for the cells; avoid all poisons
in food and.all.vaccinations.
Cells have many duties involving
high organization, including manufacture of
DNA
and sending it into chromosomes,
regulating the receipt of nutrients from the blood stream and waste removal.
"If a cell didn't have any.(and
there are thousands of them).molecular
motors.(some
being; myosin and actin {for muscle contractions}, kinesin {transports
packages of proteins around inside the cell on rails called
microtubules},
myosin V {transports cargo along actin filaments in nerve endings}, etc.),
it wouldn't be alive.
"The cell is like a huge
city road network, yet we know virtually nothing about the traffic signals.
Even more of a mystery is the way a cell can change the layout of its entire
city. For example, when a cell divides, it may change shape and tear down
unnecessary microtubules."....James
Spudich, Stanford University, California biochemist, in an article in New
Scientist (newscientist.com), April 15, 2000,
entitled 'Engines of Life'.
Spudich explains that each
package has both kinesin. which transports packages of proteins around
inside the cell on rails called microtubules
and myosin V
bound to it;."it
has to know when to shut one motor off and switch tracks. How this happens
is still a mystery."
Intranuclear
transport is still largely a mystery. For example, how do the proteins
pass from the
'suburb' where they are made, to the centre of the 'city' or out to
the world beyond, the blood stream? Nobel prize winner Günter Blobel,
Rockefeller University.(rockefeller.edu/pubinfo/blobelbio.php),
New York, is working on the whys and hows.
The human body contains
about 70 trillion
cells, some estimate 100 trillion, others less than 70. 70 trillion is
70 million million. And these cells comprise
trillions upon trillions of additional
molecules,
themselves containing even smaller unimaginable counts of atoms,
themselves containing even smaller quarks,
themselves containing even smaller and more numerous 'strings'.
Cells are nerve cells, blood
cells, liver cells, bone cells, muscle cells, etc. Considering 75% of the
body is water, there is not that much room left for them it would seem.
It is a good thing ego
is a thing of the spirit or
in some people there would be no room for the water.
A cell exhibits mathematical
design that leaves us awe
struck. A cross section of it looks like a curve,."a
circle that develops a waist".Ian
Stewart says of it. A typical cell must have on hand about 30,000 proteins
at any one time.
The 'waist' narrows, pinches
into a figure 8 pattern and breaks apart into two circles. Now there are
two complete cells. Man can't even make a computer do that! Too bad. It
would be nice to have two in the house.
Cells use RNA.molecules
as patterns for making structures
called telomeres
which stabilize the ends of the chromosomes.
Telomeres protect chromosomes from 'unraveling' and then deteriorating.."It
is the genetic equivalent of the plastic tips on the ends of your shoelaces.
But every time your cells divide, the telomere gets shorter and shorter.
When it disappears, your cells stop dividing and death occurs. Vitamin
C.(popular
thanks to the amazing work of Drs. Albert
Szent Gyorgyi, Nobel prize winner and Linus
Pauling, two time Nobel prize winner).has
been shown to slow down the rate by as much as 62%."....totalhealthbreakthroughs.com
Dr. Al Sears has done much
work on telomeres and how they reverse
aging.
Molecules must perform their
tasks under the cell's very crowded conditions. They must seek out their
proper substrates
and interact only with proper
partners.
Cells being biological pathways,
crisscross,
branch and merge into complex networks.
The smallest active catalytic.protein
molecules of the living cell consist
of at least a hundred amino
acids. For each, even such a short molecule, there exists 20100.(100th
power).to
20130 alternative arrangements of the twenty basic monomers.
An unlimited variety of macro.(larger).molecule
structures is possible.
Amazingly the fertilized
egg divides into
these 70-100 trillion.(a
trillion is a million million).cells
making up the entire human body, including 12 billion
brain cells which form over 120 trillion connections to the hundreds of
millions of
computers the
body has. Amazingly it 'knows' how many cells are needed to do what
and where, how many nerve connections are needed to do the highly specialized
work that they do. Truly we are amazingly made:.Psalms
139:14 "I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Marvellous are thy works and that my soul knows right well."
A fertilized egg is one of
the more complex structures in the Universe and along with DNA, were convincing
reasons for Harvard University to conclude evolution is just fancy,
just a fairy tale.
Chromosomes
are constant at 46 to 23 in ova and sperm. They define the individual characteristics
of an organism. No randomness here, just intelligent design.
