Living systems maintain a stable low entropy state far from thermodynamic equilibrium by using information. This is a unique property of living systems.
The central dogma of biology states that information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins, but it does not capture the full complexity of information processing in cells.
Enzymes encoded in DNA accelerate reactions through quantum interactions that lower activation energy, converting genetic information into a thermodynamic state.
Most of the cell’s information is stored in transmembrane ion gradients, not just the genome. Membrane proteins use this information.
Transmembrane ion pumps create ion gradients that are used by ion channels to allow selective ion fluxes, generating local information dynamics.
Local ion fluxes can change the function of membrane proteins and allow movement of macromolecules to the membrane.
The cytoskeleton can transmit information rapidly through the cell, providing a distributed network for information processing.
Complexity in living systems arises more from membrane-to-membrane interactions than from genome size.
The genome provides the machinery to generate ion gradients, but information exchange between cells through membrane dynamics drives complexity.
The nucleus is one part of a broader information system, not the central processor of the cell.
Living systems maintain a stable low entropy state far from thermodynamic equilibrium by using information. This is a unique property of living systems.
The central dogma of biology states that information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins, but it does not capture the full complexity of information processing in cells.
Enzymes encoded in DNA accelerate reactions through quantum interactions that lower activation energy, converting genetic information into a thermodynamic state.
Most of the cell’s information is stored in transmembrane ion gradients, not just the genome. Membrane proteins use this information.
Transmembrane ion pumps create ion gradients that are used by ion channels to allow selective ion fluxes, generating local information dynamics.
Local ion fluxes can change the function of membrane proteins and allow movement of macromolecules to the membrane.
The cytoskeleton can transmit information rapidly through the cell, providing a distributed network for information processing.
Complexity in living systems arises more from membrane-to-membrane interactions than from genome size.
The genome provides the machinery to generate ion gradients, but information exchange between cells through membrane dynamics drives complexity.
The nucleus is one part of a broader information system, not the central processor of the cell.
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