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Re:In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery by 0xfeba on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @11:28AM (#11954675)
> I deeply believed that organisms share the same basic set of genes.

Many groups of organisms do. All organisms is a tall order, if you think about it.

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Re:In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery by jhoechtl on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @11:34AM (#11954722)
The more I think about that the more makes me believe that the Genome is not the smallest order which defines "life".

Maybe all is hidden behind getting blurry because of Heisebergs uncertainty principle.

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Re:In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery by alextheparrot on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @11:44AM (#11954794)
If you consider the genome to be information, life is effectively the process that information supports by encoding a method to accomplish the process. Replicating and using energy in a coordinated manner are two processes of life, but their information-based encoding can differ significantly based on the method used.
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Re:In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @12:52PM (#11955301)
It's the process of making things work in a cell. Turns out, there are more than one encoding for how to make that happen.
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