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To: BRITinUSA
The odds of creating a 250-protein cell (in theory the smallest number of proteins needed for a single cell) has been estimated at 1:1041,000

How do you account for protein domains and cumulative selection in your calculation?

16 posted on 02/02/2010 7:15:26 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Moonman62
This is probably way over my head, but how would cumulative self organization work in the abiogenic world?
25 posted on 02/02/2010 2:40:26 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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