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Reductionism: RNA Polymerase II |
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24 in X 32 in.(any, same ratio) |
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Digital painting. |
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Reductionism is the philosophy that everything in the universe
is explainable in terms of simpler things than themselves. For
example: atoms are made of electrons, protons, neutrons; molecules
are made of atoms; cells are made of proteins, fats, etc. RNA
Polymerase II is the protein machine that transcribes DNA into
RNA, the first step in making proteins from the DNA. In 2001
A. L. Gnatt, P. Cramer and associates published the actual 3D
physical structure of RNA Polymerase II so that it is possible
to work out almost step by step how it works. I can almost hear
it now moving along the DNA: ca-click, ca-clunk, ca-click, ca-clunk,
... The painting shows the 3D structure of RNA Polymerase II,
some DNA going into it, and a few representative life forms perhaps
explainable in terms of atoms, DNA, proteins, etc. |
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On display at Raices Taller Gallery Sep 2002. |