• Question: What are bacterial proteins?

    Asked by thedexter102 to MarkF on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Mark Fogg answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Yeah, didn’t make that very clear did I!?

      Proteins help carry out the chemical reactions that allow things like bacteria, plants and animals to live.
      A bacterium is kind of like a computer, inside you have all the software and hardware that makes the bug work. The software is DNA, it contains all the instructions for what the bug does. Proteins are like the electronics, they carry out the instructions stored in the software and make the bug do its thing.

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