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Article #482Re: Creating life
From: Brian Miller
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1989 18:54
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1989 18:54
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In article <1989Oct31.034851.24494@agate.berkeley.edu> mkkuhner@codon2.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Mary K. Kuhner) writes: >A small virus could probably be sythesized quite readily. Man currently lacks the knowledge to create viri from scratch. Modifying existing ones he can do clumsily however. >My favorite experiment showing the complexity of non-DNA information >in the cell was done with a protozoan which is covered with cilia, >all lined up the same way. Very precise microsurgery was used to >cut a strip off of the cell wall and put it back in reverse. >Somehow the cell survives this, and ends up with a row of backwards >cilia. All descendents of that cell have a similar row, because >the old cell's cilia are used as templates for the new arrangement. Fascinating. >Mary Kuhner >mkkuhner@enzyme.berkeley.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uwvax!puff!cat21!brianm From: brianm@cat21.CS.WISC.EDU (Brian Miller) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Creating life Keywords: Life Message-ID: <3590@puff.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 2 Nov 89 18:54:46 GMT References: <2461@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <1989Oct31.034851.24494@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@puff.cs.wisc.edu Reply-To: brianm@cat21.CS.WISC.EDU (Brian Miller) Distribution: usa Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 22