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True or false: A scientist can make a cell in a laboratory using only chemicals.

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Answer: False.

Explanation: It is not possible to construct a cell from scratch, for several major reasons: Cell structure and arrangements of cellular components (membranes in particular) are not directly coded in DNA sequence; they represent a sort of “institutional memory” of a cell, and are replicated through a process of cellular division.

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