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ampdepolymerase | 2 years ago
> A multicellular organism gametes divide only a handfull of times per generation.
That's what recombination is for during sexual reproduction.
> It does not contain informtion how to assemble the molecular machines from the proteins, or how "to be alive" in general.
Unless you subscribe to the creationist or Larmarckian schools of thought, this is flat out wrong. DNA polymerase and similar analogues like reverse transcriptase do not exist in a vacuum. There are entire branches of evolutionary biology dedicated to studying their formation. The main transcription proteins, helicase, polymerase, and ribosomes can all be assembled from the basic proteins they themselves transcribe. (Incidentally figuring out the ultimate structure that a protein chain assembles into is what AlphaFold does, bioinformatics and ML's crowning jewel)
> There is heritable information outside of DNA, that is epigenetic in its nature.
When biologists refer to epigenetics, they mean information carriage that's not strictly tied to the nucleotides. This doesn't meant DNA isn't involved. Most epigenetics I can think of off the top of my head all involve the DNA transcription mechanism in some way.
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