[LiteKeeper]

The DNA carries information that is used like a blueprint to build proteins out of amino acids. Where did that "information" come from? Information is never self-generated, nor can "matter" generate information. So all that DNA needs a source for it's information. Any ideas where it comes from?

[Diogenesis]

polyAAAAA reproduces itself.
All life has DNA which begins with polyAAAAA.
The DNA which was best covered and protected, then did the best.

[BikerNYC]

Any ideas where it comes from?

I don't know, but if it comes from somewhere, I am really curious as to how that "somewhere" got it.

[Virginia-American]

Information is never self-generated, nor can "matter" generate information.

Why not?

How did the information about how to metabolize nylon arise? Analysis shows that the nylon-eating bugs are a single base pair mutation different from the wild (carbohydrate-eating) bugs.

Mutation occurs in nylon-free environment (eg before the '30s) : bacterium dies
Mutation occurs in nylon-rich environment : bacterium flourishes, reproduces. It's 'discovered' a new, totally-unoccupied, niche.

So where did the information come from? It seems to me it came from the environment to the genome. Self-geenerated by matter.

[Moonman62]

The DNA carries information that is used like a blueprint to build proteins out of amino acids. Where did that "information" come from? Information is never self-generated, nor can "matter" generate information. So all that DNA needs a source for it's information. Any ideas where it comes from?

Anything that persists in nature is likely to contain information such as ice cores and tree rings. It should be no surprise that self-replicating polymers also carry information.

[7thson]

God!