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At 10:33 PM 11/02/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Keith Henson -
>
> >"The unique design of fluid systems provides high economy of the synthesis
> >due to low consumption of reagents and high coupling efficiency.
>
>OK....
>
>This is not some magical recreation, a la transporter, of organic
>material from information, but a programmed preparing of supplied organic
>components from other sources.
I.e., a gene writer. They tend to make fairly short strands, sort them,
and then splice them for longer runs. But it would be a matter of a few
weeks at the most to run off a mapped virus.
>Jigsaw puzzling a small string of DNA together. We are talking four
>proteins.
DNA is not proteins. Nucleic acids, ATGC,
A with T: the purine adenine (A) always pairs with the pyrimidine thymine (T)
C with G: the pyrimidine cytosine (C) always pairs with the purine guanine (G)
My youngest daughter had this in high school biology a few years
ago. Makes me really wonder how you could have missed it?
Keith
>Yeah, I think I will look one up. I used to work next to the cyclotron,
>which is now, alas, moved from its Oxford Street location, and, next to
>the robotics lab, so, I'm rather used to turning corners and not quite
>knowing what I will see.
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