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That's not strictly true - DNA doesnt replicate itself, a cell with DNA replicates itself. You need to count the information contained in the non-DNA part of t
by humanjir 6mo ago
That's not strictly true - DNA doesnt replicate itself, a cell with DNA replicates itself.
You need to count the information contained in the non-DNA part of the cell too.
Just in case it's not obvious, you can't take human DNA and put it in a cat cell, it won't work, that cell won't replicate.
- adrian_b 6mo agoTrue. For now, the DNA replication and the synthesis of RNA and proteins using the information stored in DNA are the best understood parts about how a cell grows and divides, but how other complex cellular structures, e.g. membranes or non-ribosomal peptides, are assembled and replicated is much less understood. We need more years of research, perhaps up to a decade or two, until we will be able to know the entire amount of information describing a simple bacterial cell, and perhaps more than that for a much more complex eukaryotic cell.