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Is that true? You can take a naked genome, and do something to it, and a cell will materialize? With a cell wall and cytoplasm all its mitochondria and everythi
by nsxwolf 11y ago
Is that true? You can take a naked genome, and do something to it, and a cell will materialize? With a cell wall and cytoplasm all its mitochondria and everything?
- tantalor 11y agoYeah the "do something" black box includes a cell replication step. Given genome, 1. Replace genome in host cell 2. Replicate host cell 3. Output "materialized" cell
- kyberias 11y agoWell, they had to have a receptive cell to bootstrap this thing, that is true. Yet, since we're talking about mycoplasma here, they don't have a cell wall (only plasma membrane) nor mitochondria (only eukaryotes have those). The new minimal genome really has to synthesize everything needed by the cell to grow and divide.