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Posted By: Andrew PalfreymanAnimal grows gears
Does anyone understand how DNA is able to program this? Where is the piece of code for the gearwheel diameter, the number of teeth, their shape, their size, etc..? There is much we do not understand, planthopper.
Posted By: Andrew PalfreymanI'd say that there's probably a real gear out there somewhere.
Posted By: Andrew Palfreyman
All that with about six thousand bases. As a programmer, I'm calling that astounding.
Sanger, F., et al. "Nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage φX174 DNA", Nature 265 (Feb. 24, 1977). An exciting presentation of the first laying-bare ever of the full hereditary material of any organism. The surprise is the double-entendre: two proteins coded for in an overlapping way: almost too much to believe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi_X_174
I think you're right - meshed teeth do not a gear make. But since, as you rightly point out, Nature can make a bearing, I'd say that there's probably a real gear out there somewhere.