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302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution

2345.935 - 2368.628 Chris Kempes

It's turning genetic information into functional proteins. It's actually building the functional proteins. And we realized for it to keep up with this runaway growth rate, eventually you would need more of that device than you have cell. So you would need to pack more. You need more of this machine that can actually fit inside the cell. We call this the ribosome catastrophe.

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