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This project is about designing an organism that resembles the Last Universal Common Ancestor and whose construction is feasible. | This project is about designing an organism that resembles the Last Universal Common Ancestor and whose construction is feasible. | ||
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We have to start by: | We have to start by: | ||
* Estimate the genomic size of LUCA. | * Estimate the genomic size of LUCA. | ||
| - | + | Concivably an organism could survive in a controlled environment with a minimal genome of just 113kbp and 151 genes ([http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v2/n1/full/msb4100090.html Forster 2006]). However, recent estimates sugest that LUCA was complex and probably had more than 600 genes ([http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/ctf20/dphil_2005/CSNs/Minimal%20Genome/nrmicro751.pdf Kooning 2003]). | |
* Check if a RNA genome can sustain such genome size. | * Check if a RNA genome can sustain such genome size. | ||
* Does it had the necesary genetic machinery to support DNA? | * Does it had the necesary genetic machinery to support DNA? | ||
Revision as of 16:01, 10 November 2009
This project is about designing an organism that resembles the Last Universal Common Ancestor and whose construction is feasible.
Replication machinery
We have to start by:
- Estimate the genomic size of LUCA.
Concivably an organism could survive in a controlled environment with a minimal genome of just 113kbp and 151 genes (Forster 2006). However, recent estimates sugest that LUCA was complex and probably had more than 600 genes (Kooning 2003).
- Check if a RNA genome can sustain such genome size.
- Does it had the necesary genetic machinery to support DNA?
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