{"id":578,"date":"2023-11-28T15:43:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cellandcelldivision.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2023-11-28T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:43:34","slug":"page-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cellandcelldivision.com\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Page 98"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Modern Concepts About the Structure, Functions and Reproduction of Cells<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Section 2.7.<\/strong> In this Section the cell as a generalized notion will be<br>considered in the light of the chromosome theory and the Watson and Crick<br>model of DNA, underlying the modern interpretations of its development<br>and reproduction. Naturally, the results of classical cytology and genetics<br>will not be ignored, as well as certain deviations from the concepts that<br>have been imposed for a given period of time as the only correct ones.<br>If the existing data, opinions and hypotheses about life origins are<br>fastidiously scrutinized (see Chapter 1) it would not be hard to admit that<br>the abiotic formation of the monomers by \u201cthe lucky combining\u201d of atoms<br>and molecules in the non-living nature and their conversion under suitable<br>conditions into biopolymers with the corresponding primitive self-reproductive<br> mechanisms has given rise to living matter formed initially into<br>cell structures and only after that into unicellular and multicellular<br>organisms.<br>Biopolymers are naturally found compounds of high-molecular weight<br>consisting of monomers bound by a specific manner into long chains of<br>strictly defined configuration and biological functions. Since cells represent<br>in themselves very complex biological systems in their composition, it is<br>impossible to even make suggestions about their ultimate chemical and<br>biochemical organization. That is why only the most important biopolymers<br>will be spelled out \u2014 proteins, nucleic acids and carbohydrates, these<br>being the major cell components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Proteins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Proteins are high-molecular organic compounds, built from lineary situated<br>amino acids, with a molecular weight ranging from 1&#215;10\u2076<br>to 1&#215;10\u00b9\u2070 daltons.<br>Out of over the 150 identified amino acids only 20 of them take part in the<br>composition of protein molecules (Fig. 2\u201329).<br>Literature data allow for the possibility of formation of more than 10\u00b3\u00b2\u2070<br>different proteins with an average length of the chain of about 300 amino acid<br>residues. Simultaneously it is admitted that such a number of proteins would<br>have hardly been possible in reality. It is much more likely for their fund to be<br>much less numerous, the course of evolution eliminating most of them and<br>only preserving the really needed ones.<br>Chemical analyses have shown that after water (about 70%) protein<br>content (more than 50% of the dry matter) comes second as quantity in the<br>cell composition. Theirs is the biological function to determine the structure,<br>to keep up growth and take part in the realization of all <em>vital <\/em>processes<br>related to their development and division including cell specialization,<br>differentiation and dedifferentiation which will be further treated in detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern Concepts About the Structure, Functions and Reproduction of Cells Section 2.7. In this Section the cell as a generalized notion will beconsidered in the light of the chromosome theory and the Watson and Crickmodel of DNA, underlying the modern interpretations of its developmentand reproduction. 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