LitLitten t1_jbowstl wrote
Reply to comment by AmoraCon in I just learned that the known shortest DNA in an “organism” is about 1700 base pairs in a certain virus. Is there a minimum amount of “code” required for an organism (or virus) to function in any capacity? by mcbergstedt
It’s just an RNA chain really.
The original bacteriophage virus used to harvest the first chain only infected certain bacterium such as E. Coli, fwiw.
The actual replication environment is highly specific and required special solutions.
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