Is Anything That’s Alive Kind of Complicated?

Question: Is anything that’s alive kind of complicated?

Answer: Now that you mention it, yes.

Here’s a little (but this little is a lot) of what people have managed to figure out about what’s happening moment to moment in a wee, tiny little bacterium that has a fancy name (“Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655“). You can find the complete version of this diagram at the KEGG PATHWAY Database web site, which describes its own contents as “Wiring diagrams of molecular interactions, reactions and relations”

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