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I just did my morning exercise while listening to a short youtube talk on genetics. I do not understand it but what struck me was it seemed to be on the level of an EE discussing OHM's law, Transistor theory, and digital logic terms.
Now I know all the rules that make my PC on which I am writing this question existed thousands of years ago and were waiting to be discovered and used. I do not believe we have reached a point where we can explain how the basic rules for the genetic code can make us, you and me and my cat now telling me it is her breakfast three time.
I think the laws for genetic code and what can be made from that code existed millions and millions of years ago. Having a building in some cave somewhere producing my PCs without human intervention seems unlikely. However, we seem to have been lucky that the original design specification of the things made by the genetic code does just that. My question is, how well do we understand how this genetic code can make a human baby (or a cow or a fish or in the good old days a T-Rex?)
Thank you for indulging my curiosity.
Now I know all the rules that make my PC on which I am writing this question existed thousands of years ago and were waiting to be discovered and used. I do not believe we have reached a point where we can explain how the basic rules for the genetic code can make us, you and me and my cat now telling me it is her breakfast three time.
I think the laws for genetic code and what can be made from that code existed millions and millions of years ago. Having a building in some cave somewhere producing my PCs without human intervention seems unlikely. However, we seem to have been lucky that the original design specification of the things made by the genetic code does just that. My question is, how well do we understand how this genetic code can make a human baby (or a cow or a fish or in the good old days a T-Rex?)
Thank you for indulging my curiosity.
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