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Language is an utterly necesidaf from the various auditory, tactile, and visual forms of communication in that it allows the communication of an original personal association to another individual.

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He points out that enzymes are optically active themselves, L isomers are the “natural” isomers, and that the specificity of action and the sterospecificity of the reaction conducted by an enzyme are the result of the positioning of the asar with respect to each other.

With mild treatment protomers are separated and the oligomer protein loses function but if the initial “normal” conditions are restored the subunits will usually reassemble spontaneously.

Toward the end of the preface Monod offers apology for any overly tedious or technical sections. All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its own contingency” Monod, He goes on to state that he does not intend to make a thorough survey of modern biology but rather to “bring out the form of its key concepts and to point out their logical relationships with other areas of thought…it necesidas an avowed attempt to extract the quintessence of the molecular theory of the code” Monod, xiii.

The author spends much of the chapter reviewing general facts of biochemistry. Monod makes the point that selection of a mutation is due to the environmental surroundings of the organism and the teleonomic performances.


He states that the source of information for the antibodies associative structure is not the antigen itself but is instead the result of many random recombinations of part of the antibody gene. Upon dissociation each protomer can assume a relaxed state and this concerted response of each protomer accounts for the nonlinearity of enzyme activity: The last general property Monod offers up as distinguishing living organisms is reproductive invariance which is the ability of a living being to reproduce and transmit the information corresponding to their own highly ordered structure.

Various mutations such as substitutions, deletions, and inversions are listed. In Jacob and Monod proposed the existence of a messenger ribonucleic acid mRNAa substance whose base sequence is complementary to that of deoxyribonucleic acid DNA in the cell.

Monod starts off chapter I entitled “Of Strange Objects” with a consideration of the difference between natural and artificial objects and states that “the basic premise of the scientific method It is this contingency of human existence that is the central message of Chance and Necessity; that life arose by chance and all beings of life, including humans, are the products of natural selection. Synthesis of mRNA is blocked when the repressor is bound to the operator.

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The author says that this animist belief is due to a projection of man’s awareness of his own teleonomic functioning onto inanimate nature.

The antibody that is able to bind to the antigen is multiplied. He briefly discuses the murky metaphysical vitalism of Henri Bergson and then discusses the scientific vitalism of Elsasser and Polanyi which contend that physical forces and chemical interactions that have been studied in non-living matter do not fully account for invariance and teleonomy and mobod other “biotonic laws” are at work in living matter.

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He then brings up and defends against a possible thermodynamic objection to reproductive invariance and points out the extreme efficiency of the teleonomic apparatus in accomplishing the preservation and necesiidad of the structure.


Our values are rooted in animism and are at odds with objective knowledge and truth. He next considers the energetic differences between covalent and non-covalent bonds and how the speed of a reaction is affected by activation energy. He lists the components of the regulatory system as i, the regulator gene that directs constant synthesis of the repressor protein Ro, the operator segment of DNA that the repressor specifically recognizes and forms a stable complex with, and p, the DNA promoter where RNA polymerase binds.

The author believes that we contain an inborn genetic need to search out the meaning of existence and that is responsible for the creation of myths, religion, and philosophy. The basic tenet of this book is that systems in nature with molecular biology, such as enzymatic biofeedback loops can be explained without having to invoke final causality.

Prior to folding there is no biological activity.

aazar In chapter eight “The Frontiers” Monod captures the sense of wonderment one feels when considering the extraordinary diversity and complexity of organisms that has been brought about through billions of years of evolution when he says ” The miracle stands “explained”; it does not strike us as any less miraculous” Monod, The author then writes that a primary structure exists in a single or a small number of related states, as is the case with allosteric proteins precisely defined conformational native state under normal physiological conditions.

Since the activation energy of a covalent bond is high the reaction will have a slower speed than that of a non-covalent bond which occurs spontaneously and rapidly.

First the folding of the polypeptide sequence into globular proteins, then the association between proteins into organelles, thirdly the interactions between cells that make up tissue and organs, and lastly “coordination and differentiation of chemical activities via allosteric-type interactions” Monod, The rest of the chapter is a discussion of the principles that cell metabolism works by.

The first is feedback inhibition. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. This remarkable example shows chance as the basis for one of the most precise adaptation phenomena. In the last paragraph of neecsidad preface Monod explains that his essay developed from the Robins Lectures that he gave in at Pomona College.


Monod necesivad as “the frontier” the work that is to be done that will enable us to understand how this instrument of intuitive preconception works. He says that the important message of science is that in the defining of a new source of truth which demands revision of ethical premises and a total break with the animist tradition.

At the start of chapter five “Molecular Ontogenesis” Monod states he will show that the process of spontaneous autonomous morphogenesis depends upon “the sterospecific recognition properties of proteins; that it is primarily a microscopic process before manifesting itself in macroscopic structures.

Nature is explained with the same conscious and purposive manner as human activity. In monodd last part of the chapter the author brings up the important subject of mutations. Parallel activation takes place when the first enzyme of a metabolic sequence is activated by a metabolite synthesized by an independent parallel sequence. He goes on to explain that it is marginal because the living world is only a fraction of the universe. Allosteric enzymes are usually under the simultaneous control of several allosteric effectors.

Similar functions are carried out by the same sequence of reactions that appear in all organisms for essential chemical operations some variations exist that consist of new utilizations of universal metabolic sequences. Monod makes the point that behavior cannot be strictly separated as learned or innate since elements are acquired through experience according to an innate program and “the programs structure initiates and guides early learning, which will follow a certain pre-established pattern defined by the species’ genetic patrimony” Monod, Monod later retracts autonomous morphogenesis spontaneous structuration as a property of living beings and says instead that it should be thought of as “mechanism” leaving two essential properties of living beings: The author points out that the scientific vitalist argument neccesidad support and that it draws its justification not from knowledge or observations but from our present day lack of knowledge.

The third chapter is named “Maxwell’s Demons”. Monod gives the example of antibody development to show how mohod combinations can give a well defined solution. It starts off by stating that proteins are the molecular agents of teleonomic performance in living beings.

To them a being made sense and was understandable only through the purpose animating the being and so if mysterious objects, such as rocks, rivers, rain, and stars, exist it must also be for a purpose essentially there are no inanimate objects to them.