Tuesday, 18 February 2025

Hierarchy everywhere

Hierarchy is everywhere. If you have a wonderful boss it feels like a boon to be in a hierarchical system. The one on top is competent enough to lead their team of managers who get work done on the ground level. An efficient system doesn't mean they don't have room for errors but most importantly they are capable of working efficiently while handling the mistakes and looking out for each other. 

So the first figure is DNA which is the boss,
the middle one is the RNA or the manager and
the tiny spiky circles are the molecules or as
we call them here, workers.


Wouldn't it be surprising to see such a system even in a living body? Well, it does happen in each living cell. Hierarchically there are 3 levels of communication inside any living being. Let's call them the boss, the manager, and the actual worker similar to our social life. Whatever the boss says, the manager communicates with the worker, and in turn, the worker gets the work done. Also, whatever information the worker carries is told to the boss for further discussion. 


In the case of living beings, DNA is the boss, RNA is the Manager, and the chemicals and other molecules are the workers. So when I say microbes produce chemicals for others to sniff, it just means that the boss has ordered the same to happen. Let's upgrade ourselves at this point and start calling these chemicals as proteins and enzymes. It makes more sense in terms of Biology.   


If you can follow the images, which I am proud to say, I attempted to do it by myself, that is basically every small thing works in a living system. every cell is individually capable of functioning independently. That's how microbes which are single-cell beings live independently in a community. 

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