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Studying molecules is the key to understand life. A commonly accepted definition of life, known as the NASA (North American Space Agency) hypothesis, states that “Life is a self-sustained chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution” (Fig. 1.1). The link between molecules and life may be hard to explain, but it is simple to illustrate.
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Da Poian, A.T., Castanho, M.A.R.B. (2015). Introduction: Life Is Made of Molecules!. In: Integrative Human Biochemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3058-6_1
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