“The dream of every cell is to become two cells.”

— François Jacob

They not only obey them; they utilize them as a good engineer would, with maximum efficiency, to carry out the project and bring about the "dream" (as François Jacob put it) of every cell: to become two cells.
Source: Originated from paraphrase of a paragraph in Chance and Necessity (1970, p20) by Jacques Monod:

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