I ended up majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology in my undergrad because I was browsing on Wikipedia one day and came across an article written on an E. Coli variant that had sentences like:

01J3 e. Coli has a DNA Polymerase that contains 3k’-5’ proofreading capability and 5’-3’ error correcting with a polymerisation rate of 50bps

I’ve made the above up because I have never been able to find a Wikipedia page winxe that as succinctly pointed out to me that biology was a machine and I was hooked