Comment on The human body is a watercooled biological machinery
nikaaa@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes, it’s pretty cool. Side notes:
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plants produce a literally electrical voltage across cell membrane when collecting sunlight. The solar panel is very much a technological copy of plant leaves.
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biology can be incredibly efficient sometimes. storing information in DNA takes just about 40-50 atoms per bit, and DNA is about 2.5 nm in diameter. For comparison, the finest structures in modern computers are 3-5 nm in size.
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since powering the whole thing is incredibly important, animals have one specialized cell (mitochondria) inside every normal cell, simply for the purpose to convert the energy from sugar into a usable form. Plants habe two of these specialized cells, with the other one’s job being simply to collect sunlight and turn it into usable energy.