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on global warming and macromolecules.

Submitted by ekim on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 4:47pm.

we discussed in class today that the cause of global warming is the increase in carbon dioxide, not due to natural processes (like the increase in cellular respiration and decrease in photosynthesis), but due to unnatural ones--burning fossil fuels (i.e. factories, cars, etc.). So does that make humans a disruption to the ordered (improbable) assemblies of life? If so, would the orderliness of life change to adapt to the disruptions that humans caused?

And if living things learn how to adapt to new environments, does that mean that fundamentally macromolecules change as well (since they are the building blocks of living things)?

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