Quality Control Is a Design Concept at Work in the Cell

Throughout the living world, we find amazing examples of something we recognize from our own intelligent designs: quality control.

In industry, quality control may be automated. In Mars rover operation, the vehicle has been pre-programmed to handle contingencies on its own, due to the long delay time in communications with Earth. The better the rover can operate autonomously, the more we rightly admire the skill of the designers. So it is with the cell.

The term "quality control" appears with...