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And yet, in those 250 million years, it's very likely that the genome was completely rewritten. The phenotype of the organism is more stable than its genome. No
by inciampati 3y ago
And yet, in those 250 million years, it's very likely that the genome was completely rewritten. The phenotype of the organism is more stable than its genome. Not a shred of Wikipedia would be left after such a time scale.
- pcrh 3y agoThere's a lot of redundancy and "archaic" DNA in most multicellular organisms. I imagine that over 50% of wikipedia would still be present after a million years. The inserted wiki-DNA could also conceivably be constructed so as to ensure its own perpetuation.