The Natural Repertory of Prof. William Nelson

the different radioactive isotopes the RNA functioning came to a halt. It
could only be brought back by bringing in a fresh, natural selection of
the amino acids. Thus, DNA has some ability to possibly ‘know” that the
items involved are radioactive. This would be reinforced by our quantum
theories; if a radioactive particle were put into this process, the biology
would soon be able to “know” it and halt its progress. Biology and life
operate on many levels including sub molecular. The process would be
able to notice radioactivity as an irregularity.
This makes us wonder about the different radioactive tracing
experiments in which radioactive iodine was put into the body by
experimenters who found that it goes to the thyroid; and then it was
assumed that all iodine would go to the thyroid. All we know from that
experiment is that radioactive iodine goes to the thyroid. We do not know
where normal iodine goes. This is another limitation of quantic theory.
Tracing experiments have led to many faulty conclusions in biology.
Electron microscopists started to come up with ideas of transcription
and translation of the ability to handle RNA and DNA. But basically, at
the relative body temperature E. coli’s DNA is transcribed at a rate of
around sixteen nucleotides per second into the messenger RNA strand.
The messenger RNA strand has an average length of 2,000 to 3,000
nucleotides. The half-life of the messenger RNA strand is about 90
seconds. So the ten to fifteen ribosomes which are in the process of
translating with a given messenger RNA and forming a polyribosome
become attached to the strand during the period of transcription from
the DNA. Polypeptides formed by each ribosome of a polyribosome
system are the same. The formation time of a polypeptide is around ten
seconds under certain prime conditions.
The growing E. coli bacteria contain some 15,000 ribosomes. They
make up 25% of the cell mass. The ribosome is approximately 20
nanometers across and has a molecular weight of 2.7 x 10 6 .
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