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Originally Posted by ASEI
Of course, if you're going to start counting information, most of that is a copy, from cell to cell, minus any random mutations that may occur. And most of that information never gets activated.
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But if cloning has proved anything, it is that one cells DNA is all you need. Of course, creating a completely unrelated life form that may not even
use DNA would be an impossible task with todays technology, but my point is, it is theoretically possible to send an organisms genome by telecommunication. It would require much more information then that of course for an alien life form,because there would have to be some kind of unambiguous representation of their equivalent of base pairs, or what ever they use. Still, information is information.
It would make a wonderful science fiction novel, a kind of reverse "Stranger in a strange land."
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