Life is
Complicated
Complicated
Certain vermin may be caught by this example of irreducible complexity.
What is a mouse trap?
These creatures are the simplest form of independent life.
What are bacteria?
This British theologian developed the watchmaker’s argument.
Who was William Paley?
These are examples of information coding systems.
What are books, software, and DNA?
This body part, once thought to be a useless organ, is part of the immune system.
What is the appendix?
He admitted in "Origin of the Species" that complexity cannot arise all at once.
Who was Charles Darwin?
This famous scientist disproved the spontaneous generation of life.
Who was Louis Pasteur?
These irreducibly complex microscopic machines are found in all living systems.
What are molecular motors?
This cellular information storage system uses a 4-letter alphabet.
What is DNA?
This body part, once thought to be a useless organ, helps support our abdominal muscles.
What is the tailbone or coccyx?
Though microscopic, cells have all the features of this man-made facility.
What is a factory?
This process involves heating and cooling liquids to kill bacteria and prevent spoilage.
What is pasteurization?
These bacterial appendages are driven by a microscopic electric motor.
What are flagella?
Information coding systems have these two characteristics.
What is specific and complex?
In 1895, this author published a book claiming humans had over 100 useless body parts.
Who was Dr. Weidersheim?
The information stored in DNA is used to manufacture these important molecules.
What are proteins?
This experiment (erroneously) attempted to prove that biological molecules could have formed by themselves.
What was the Miller – Urey experiment?
This microscopic machine is part of the cellular transportation system.
What is kinesin?
The 4-letter alphabet of DNA is arranged into these triplet groups.
What are amino acids?
This international research effort has shown that most human DNA is functional.
What is the ENCODE project?