Talk:Biological process
The following was removed at the end of the article in my user space; I add it here for completeness, so that I can remove the article in my user space:
- Sometimes living things can actively move through their environment. [I think this is covered by #2, or is a sub-set of #2]
- Above includes some edits, which I offer tentatively.
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- When I said that life was defined differently today, I had in mind definitions which rely on features of molecular biology which are common to all life on Earth today, such as:
- "All living things have long-chain nucleic acids and proteins".
- This is of wider coverage than the old terms, because it includes even viruses. It leaves out prions, which are only doubtfully alive. Its weakness lies in lab test-tubes, which might contain nucleic acid and proteins! So now
- "Living things are entities which use long-chain nucleic acids and proteins to reproduce themselves".
That's better, though less simple. Another approach is:
- "Living beings are open systems which reproduce themselves using nucleic acids and proteins".
- That's rather good, but requires the reader to know what an open system is.
- Over to you! Macdonald-ross (talk) 13:23, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
I am aware that this "copy" is much shorter than what we had before, but ideally, itz is more accurate. It is a better point for re-starting the article. --Eptalon (talk) 11:17, 23 May 2011 (UTC)