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There are several biological processes for which we're fairly certain that some quantum mechanical process is exploited. Strictly speaking, everything about biology is ultimately explained by quantum chemistry and physics, but not in a particularly exciting way. However, I don't think anybody has found any concrete evidence that any process in biology exploits entanglement. Instead, the examples we've seen so far are mostly around tunnelling, and coherency.

People argue a lot about the "meaning of quantum" but nearly all the arguing is about the behavior of entanglement and wavefunction collapse. Tunnelling and coherency are pretty banal QM phenomena at this point.

As for Sabine... I don't find her popular science vides about biology to be particularly enlightening or accurate.



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