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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]Arthurio said:[/b] "creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth." No it is not.Wake me up when they have created their equivalents of ribosome, vesicle, golgi apparatus, mitochondria, vacuole, cytoplasm, lysosome, centrioles etc. There's more than just DNA/RNA to a cell. How can they call it creation of artifical life if they change only a tiny part of an existing life form. [/quote] Define life. Not all cells have all the organelles you specify. Red blood cells are alive yet they do not even have a nucleus nor mitochondria. Bacteria do not have mitochondria either. And viruses? Phages? Some are nothing more than glorified strings of DNA. So again, the real question is what is life? Did Venter create life? I don't think so. Only God can create life - but then again is there a God, is there such a thing as creation? or is it all about evolution? On the other side of the coin, let's see what will come out of this technology - let's hope for the best. Nature & Travel Photography [url=http://www.sleepingwolves.com]Visit the Sleeping Wolves[/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/6261]SleepingWolf[/url] on 10-07-2007 23:17)[/small] Loading...
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