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How do we guarantee that? Is there a biological equivalent of a checksum?
by DSingularity 6y ago
How do we guarantee that? Is there a biological equivalent of a checksum?
- maxerickson 6y agoYou have trillions of mitochondria. Do you think there is no error correction present? (The actual estimate is 10 million billion...) Edit following my other edit: each cell has something like 10 million ribosomes.
- serf 6y agoNMD does similar work, but not in a checksum-like way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense-mediated_decay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense-mediated_decay