as “the aggregate of all physical and chemical processes constantly taking place in living organisms.” The key words are “physical” and, especially, “chemical.” There is no escape. If one wishes to understand life, one has to go through some chemistry. In a book like this, we can’t examine all the details that fill biochemistry textbooks with formulas of daunting complexity. Fortunately, it is possible to give an idea of how metabolism works without calling on a single formula. This is what I try to do. Living cells are chemical factories Have you ever visited a chemical factory? If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all, for all are constructed on the same model: a collection of closed vats linked by pipes. Each vat is the site, under specified conditions of temperature, acidity, and so on, and with the eventual addition of a catalyst to facilitate the reaction, of a given step in the specified process. The pipes feed reactants into the vat and allow exit of the products.
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