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organic molecules

  1. The smallest units of organic compounds . Important examples of these molecules are based on chains of carbon atoms and come in four major categories: proteins , carbohydrates , lipids , and nucleic acids ( DNA and RNA ).


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Since a powder is a powder, the inputs could be anything that contain the right organic molecules.

On the one hand we have been able to construct artificially such complex organic molecules as sugar and protein.

I have always said, that the organic molecules were fixed, and that their uniting was caused only by their loss of motion.

In fact, organic molecules can be divided into two classes according as they give rise to anti-substances or fail to do so.

Life comes from no mere "precipitation of organic molecules," as Dr. Bennett would have us believe.

It is upon this theory that Buffon rested his organic molecules, and Ray his vital globules.

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