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by wonderingwhy 3727 days ago
related question, on putting messages into dynamic, living systems:

let's say the 'message' is so large it can only be inserted into a 'junk DNA' (non-conserved) region of the genome.

is it correct to assume there are less active/robust dna repair mechanisms to 'fix' the insertions, deletions, substitutions described above than in conserved regions?

what might some numbers be for errors rates in non conserved regions ( 2x, 10x,...) compared to conserved regions? or maybe one type of error is relatively much higher than another kind?

im guessing sources of insertion/deletion/substitution 'error' are mutations over lifetime of cell, and also replication errors in daughter cells.