Another $64,000 Question
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All this talk about information- specified and not- has me searching for an answer to the question:
How many nucleotides can necessity and chance string together? That is given a test tube, flask or vat of nucleotides, plus some UV, heat, cold, lightning, etc., what can come of that?
Has anyone tried to do such a thing?
Afte Lincoln and Joyce published the paper on the sustained replication- Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme, there was an article in Scientific American with one of them (Joyce?)- seems to think that 35 is highly unlikely.
And for another $64,000:
How many amino acids can necessity and chance string together?
All this talk about information- specified and not- has me searching for an answer to the question:
How many nucleotides can necessity and chance string together? That is given a test tube, flask or vat of nucleotides, plus some UV, heat, cold, lightning, etc., what can come of that?
Has anyone tried to do such a thing?
Afte Lincoln and Joyce published the paper on the sustained replication- Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme, there was an article in Scientific American with one of them (Joyce?)- seems to think that 35 is highly unlikely.
And for another $64,000:
How many amino acids can necessity and chance string together?
posted by Joe G @ 4:53 PM
2 Comments:
At 1:59 AM,
IntelligentAnimation said…
Millions of dollars have been spent for many years since Miller-Uhrey attempting to create life from non-life, yielding mostly frustration. Synthetic RNA has been created and it will even transcribe in vitro, but outside of biological life synthetic RNA sits lifeless, not moving. Looks like a dead end but they should press on. Dont know the number of nucleotides they are up to, but chance and necessity is a destructive mess and scientifically useless.
At 6:54 AM,
Joe G said…
Thanks for your input
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