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If you build a cell from only eukaryote DNA instructions, it won't have any mitochondria and be unable to copy itself.
by tedunangst 3y ago
If you build a cell from only eukaryote DNA instructions, it won't have any mitochondria and be unable to copy itself.
- Karellen 3y agoMitochondrial DNA is still DNA. Symbiotic replicators that rely on the presence of each other to reproduce (like cycles of quines?) are also still replicators.
- tedunangst 3y agoI think also the Golgi apparatus has no DNA. You can't build one if you don't have one. But apparently we're still not sure where it comes from.