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Epigenetics is the least of the problems with the "reconstruct body from genome" concept. Bodies are grown in a complex environment which is totally external to
by theoh 13y ago
Epigenetics is the least of the problems with the "reconstruct body from genome" concept. Bodies are grown in a complex environment which is totally external to the genetic code. The most obvious kind of thing you wouldn't capture would be an amputation, as a crass example, but every aspect of the body is contingent rather than described solely by the genome.