Timeline for Is it biologically possible for one species to need another species to reproduce?
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| Dec 19, 2023 at 23:01 | comment | added | Robert Rapplean | @RobWatts, Maybe, yea. I think you have the right idea. That's how the Descolata virus works in Speaker For the Dead. I was actually thinking of having it splay out the genome in a relatively large space and setting a bunch of viruses free to match some chunk of it, using massively parallel chemical processing. | |
| Dec 19, 2023 at 20:46 | comment | added | Rob Watts | "picking and choosing which parts it wants to make use of" -> this sounds suspiciously similar to analyzing a Turing machine, which leads me to think you'd run into some form of the halting problem. | |
| Dec 19, 2023 at 17:49 | history | edited | Robert Rapplean | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2023 at 17:14 | history | edited | Robert Rapplean | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
confusion of gamete and zygote
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| Dec 19, 2023 at 2:31 | history | answered | Robert Rapplean | CC BY-SA 4.0 |