[A]ll multicellular plants and animals... contain mitochondria. - Nick Lane

The information encoded in DNA spells out the molecular structure of s. This, said Crick, is the 'central dogma' of all biology: genes code for proteins.

This membrane, so vanishingly thin, looms large... for bacteria use it for generating their energy.

became the study of how... simple molecules were interconnected one into another. ...The [simple] molecules ...containing ...up to about twenty carbons, but most ...have fewer than ten.