BASIC BIOCHEMICAL QUESTIONS 



problems of duplication, reproduction, and individualization 

 which I like to bring together under the term patternization. 

 This means that essentially they all may be reduced to the 

 problem of joining building stones into a specific reproducible 

 sequence or pattern. With the energy problem more or less 

 out of the way, it becomes more apparent that patternization is 

 distinct from, although superimposed upon, the process of link- 

 ing. 



It is astonishing to realize that the more one proceeds with 

 the understanding of the workings of the organism, the more one 

 becomes concerned with methodological problems. Strangely, 

 the prying into the mystery of life reduces more and more to an 

 unraveling of a sometimes rather unusual and unexpected 

 methodology of the cell. On the other hand, it is significant 

 that the complexity and methodology of man-made instruments 

 seem to converge increasingly towards the complexity of or- 

 ganismic methodology and instrumentation. 



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