| > Well until they succeed in creating artificial wombs it's technically a much larger amount of information (e.g. the cellular composition of the womb, how many and what kinds of nutrients that flow through, etc). You might note that this information is also contained in the same notional 750MB bundle. Imagine a piece of software that works poorly the first time you run it, but modifies its environment so that it will work better in future runs. There was an experiment in birds related to this. Someone had the question of whether birdsong was genetically or culturally determined. The cultural side noted that, for whatever species of bird was under investigation, birds raised without parents produced abnormal song. But upon continuing the experiment, the genetic side noted that the children of those birds, exposed only to the abnormal song of their parents, produced normal song. Raising one bird in isolation isn't enough to express the information contained in that species' DNA, but the information is there anyway. |
Not necessarily, that's the point. It's uncertain if you can recreate a human being from genome alone even with perfect technology. Some crucial information could be passed from one female to another without being present in the genome at all.
> There was an experiment in birds related to this.
I suspect none of these birds were rebuilt in a laboratory from their genome alone. The experiment proves that information is passed inside the egg but it doesn't specify via which medium.