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I’m curious why you say “easily”. Has this ever been done in a realistic environment? AFAIK it takes over 100 base pairs to produce a single self-replicating RN
by lumb63 3y ago
I’m curious why you say “easily”. Has this ever been done in a realistic environment? AFAIK it takes over 100 base pairs to produce a single self-replicating RNA, and prior to its ability to self-replicate there is nothing which would favor its creation over other random RNA.
- contravariant 3y agoI mean 'easily' is very much relative. It's easier than trying to build a cell from scratch, but much harder than say writing a quine in lisp.