nayhem_jr t1_jbqi6fj wrote
Reply to comment by Jale89 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
> they could potentially go even further, if there are genes sets where knocking out only single components was lethal, but knocking out the whole set was survivable, so there's potential to go even further.
That’s got to be maddening, having to account for various combinations within your original problem.
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