Life introduces an entirely new trick: instead of stabilizing individual complex molecules, it stabilizes the template (the thing that carries information) and allows the template to copy itself, with DNA being the beautiful molecule that contains this information in its double helix structure.
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“it's here that life introduces an entirely new trick. You don't stabilize the individual; you stabilize the template, the thing that carries information, and you allow the template to copy itself.”
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