From the time an organism is first conceived until the time


From the time an organism is first conceived until the time it dies, it has undergone an estimated 10 quadrillion divisions (that's 1 trillion times 10 thousand, for those keeping score at home). That's a pretty big number. The human genome has roughly 4 billion base pairs. What would happen if human DNA manufacturing & proofreading machinery erred at a rate of 1 in a million? What about 1 in a billion? 1 in a trillion? What number must be reached to be compatible with life & yet not so cumbersome such that the cell has no energy left for any other growth or manufacturing?

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