The fact is, it doesn't work that way in biology. When developing new biotech, you'd be lucky if you understood 5% of what a new drug does in the body (so

The fact is, it doesn't work that way in biology. When developing new biotech, you'd be lucky if you understood 5% of what a new drug does in the body (sometimes it's 0%!). Very recent example of this: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/03/28/the-smallest-viable-genome-is-very-weird http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/03/28/the... What’s rather alarming is the sequence of this current minimal cell: of those 473 genes, 149 of them are of unknown function. In the simplest possible bacterial cell, we don't know what fully 31% of the genes do. They're of vital importance to the cell, they're manufacturing proteins it absolutely cannot do without, and we don't know what any of them are.