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One thing I've pondered is with merely a genome could you construct the organism it's from?

Craig Venter already did that with a bacterial. He synthesized the entire genome, then inserted it a cell. I assume that cell already had the other machinery (translation enzymes, etc).




Single cells organisms are one thing. I don't think you can automatically extrapolate from bacteria to primates however.




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