FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and ends this weekend on the theme of modular metabolism. The realization that many systems in biology are modular is relatively recent. Somewhere between computer programming and engineering the ideas of modular efficiencies seeped into biology, and their impact has been powerful. Nature benefits from modular design because living structures are the most complex structures in the universe, and any pathway that can make their construction — and inevitable modification during development or evolution — less difficult is an obvious energetic advantage.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022