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by j16sdiz 546 days ago
A prion don't have RNA, and yet they can reproduce
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gus_massa 546 days ago
They can "reproduce" only in very specific environmens where there are similar non-malformed proteins nearby. It would be very hard to have a similar problem with a mirrored molecule that picks one type of normal molecules and mirror them.
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