"Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun" said Ray Schleine in the movie Uptown Girls. She also said: "It's a harsh world." I think Richard Dawkins and Ray Schleine are made for each other. Soul mates. The building blocks Dawkins talks about are the nucleotides within a DNA molecule. Our genes makes who and what we are. Like said previously, that is nothing more and nothing less than machines that care about nothing but themselves. Survivors of the "harsh world" Ray mentions in the movie. The specifications of our beings is written in sequences of nucleotides. Sequences that make us all unique in 46 volumes of chromosomes, in an alphabet of four letters - the same four letters that stand capitalized at the top right corner of this blog entry. Each page is a gene, every volume is different from another organisms' volume. We are different but the same. We are survival machines.
Nucleotide: basic structural unit of nucleic acids of DNA and RNA molecules.
Double Helix: structure of parallel helices within a DNA molecule.
DNA molecules: deoxyribonucleic acid, a self-replicating material present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.
Natural Selection: The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
Protein: compounds composed of long chains of amino acids
Inter - dependence: two things that depend on each other (genes).
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