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From: wapd@houxj.UUCP (Bill Dietrich)
Newsgroups: net.bio,net.origins,net.philosophy,net.sci,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: The missing step -- self-reproducing organisms
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Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 17:49:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 17:49:47 1984
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Is the mechanism of DNA/RNA reproduction understood well
enough that someone could create other molecules with
similar reproduction abilities ?  Has someone at least
determined that similar molecules can be built from other
elements ?  I assume that actually building such a big
molecule from scratch is beyond present-day capabilities.

					Bill Dietrich
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