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by aydyn 546 days ago
What's scary about mirrored DNA? DNA is information store proteins are actuators.

> would have to evolve an entirely new set of proteins from scratch.

Mirrored amino acids already exist in some organisms.

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> What's scary about mirrored DNA

Exponential growth of a self-replicating cell with zero predators.

> Mirrored amino acids already exist in some organisms.

You can have an entire planet full of mirror amino acids if you want; that's not the hard part. The hard part is evolving the entire set of mirror transcription proteins.

Where are you getting exponential growth without predators? That simply does not follow logically from any assumptions.