Cells are
the units of organic life and store in their nuclei what constitutes the instruction manual for proper cellular functioning, the DNA molecule.
Not exact matches
Unlike church growth science that works for an efficient homogeneous
unit to mobilize the congregation, 50
organic approaches recognize the heterogeneity
of members and their deep need to be reconciled in a common, if complicated,
life.
The apparent gap between nonliving and
living has now been bridged by nucleic acids, a class
of polymeric
organic molecules composed
of a succession
of small
units (nucleotides)
of four sorts, the order
of which determines an indefinitely large number
of different specificities.
Interestingly enough, by 1929 Whitehead had concluded that three similar stages constitute the «
life cycle»
of the
organic «actual occasions» which are his elemental
units of reality.
As in the story you read, many
of the battles are fought by elite
units of Exodrones — these cybernetic super-soldiers are a graft
of heavily augmented
organic tissue and machine that are grown and manufactured as empty shells, possessing no
life of their own.