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minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agothis is like the thing about prions which are proteins that make other proteins fold into a copy of themselves, thereby spreading. they’re not alive as we understand it (they don’t have genetic code), they’re just a single big molecule copying itself all over the world. another example, as you’ve already said, is crystals growing over time (metabolism) in aequous solutions.
this is like the thing about prions which are proteins that make other proteins fold into a copy of themselves, thereby spreading.
they’re not alive as we understand it (they don’t have genetic code), they’re just a single big molecule copying itself all over the world.
another example, as you’ve already said, is crystals growing over time (metabolism) in aequous solutions.