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No it doesn't, it holds a recipe for creating proteins under specific chemical and biological conditions. If you put human DNA in a chicken egg, it wouldn't ha
by enkid 3y ago
No it doesn't, it holds a recipe for creating proteins under specific chemical and biological conditions. If you put human DNA in a chicken egg, it wouldn't hatch a human.
- Karellen 3y agoAnd if you write a quine computer program on a piece of paper, it won't create a copy of itself further down the page. Or if you put a fully-functional cell in the vacuum of space, or the heart of a star, it won't replicate either. All replicators need a suitable environment to replicate in. The fact that inhospitable/non-viable environments exist does not negate the fact that they are actually replicators.