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The desire to live and reproduce. Re: DNA/RNA. (Science board)
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:34 am
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:34 am
I think "desire" falls under the category of emotion. With that said every living cell in the animal and plant kingdom shows an intrinsic desire to live forever. But we all know cells cannot live forever. So, as an alternative cells have evolved to compensate by reproducing.
Okay, I think that's a pretty simple concept.
But what is the source of that desire?
If we look to the DNA or RNA molecules, those molecules want to replicate. This can be seen in viruses. Viruses are nonliving clumps of DNA/RNA shrouded by proteins that simply want to reproduce. Again, they are nonliving but want to replicate themselves. To humans, some viruses are harmless and some are deadly. But that is besides the point.
The point is, viruses demonstrate the fact that a nonliving molecule has to propensity to replicate (reproduce) itself. I think this assertion is true and observable.
Why does the DNA/RNA molecule want to replicate?
Okay, I think that's a pretty simple concept.
But what is the source of that desire?
If we look to the DNA or RNA molecules, those molecules want to replicate. This can be seen in viruses. Viruses are nonliving clumps of DNA/RNA shrouded by proteins that simply want to reproduce. Again, they are nonliving but want to replicate themselves. To humans, some viruses are harmless and some are deadly. But that is besides the point.
The point is, viruses demonstrate the fact that a nonliving molecule has to propensity to replicate (reproduce) itself. I think this assertion is true and observable.
Why does the DNA/RNA molecule want to replicate?
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Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:36 am to GumboPot
Actually most millennials are so in debt that they have to rescue pit bulls instead of having kids
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:36 am to GumboPot
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Why does the DNA/RNA molecule want to replicate?
Because....secks
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:36 am to GumboPot
Final exams were last week, bro.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:36 am to GumboPot
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Why does the DNA/RNA molecule want to replicate?
Because you touch yourself at night
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:38 am to DustyDinkleman
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Because....secks
Actually, secks because of DNA.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:39 am to GumboPot
Interdasting
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:39 am to GumboPot
You can read Dawkins' The Selfish Gene which is based upon this topic.
But at the end of the day, you're right. Your question remains.
Good example of science figuring out the "what" and "how," but unable to answer the "why."
But at the end of the day, you're right. Your question remains.
Good example of science figuring out the "what" and "how," but unable to answer the "why."
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:39 am to tigerbait121
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Final exams were last week, bro.
I wish this topic was covered in biology (and I have a Microbiology degree...that I don't use).
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:39 am to GumboPot
I'm living a glamorous dink life and have no desire to have children. I say this with the understanding that my seed is incredibly valuable due to my master race style genetics.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:39 am to GumboPot
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Why does the DNA/RNA molecule want to replicate?
I’m sure that your mom told those guys at the gang bang that she was on birth control.
Some “mysteries” just aren’t.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:40 am to Pecker
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I'm living a glamorous dink life and have no desire to have children. I say this with the understanding that my seed is incredibly valuable due to my master race style genetics.
You have a desire to have children.
You don't have the desire to care or raise children.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:41 am to GumboPot
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Why does the DNA/RNA molecule want to replicate?
Because the ones that weren't interested in replicating didn't last long.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:41 am to UGATiger26
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You can read Dawkins' The Selfish Gene which is based upon this topic.
Will look into it.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:42 am to RougeDawg
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Because the ones that weren't interested in replicating didn't last long.
Simple but profound. Natural selection.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:43 am to Pecker
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I'm living a glamorous dink life and have no desire to have children. I say this with the understanding that my seed is incredibly valuable due to my master race style genetics.
You’re an incel, right?
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:44 am to Pecker
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I'm living a glamorous dink life and have no desire to have children. I say this with the understanding that my seed is incredibly valuable due to my master race style genetics.
Trumps gonna make it illegal for y’all to get married again
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:44 am to GumboPot
You're framing this incorrectly. They don't "desire" to reproduce. The ones that have a certain sequence of instructions that appear to be the desire to reproduce, are the ones that stick around.
This post was edited on 12/10/18 at 8:46 am
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:45 am to el Gaucho
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Trumps gonna make it illegal for y’all to get married again
We have the best genes don't we folks.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:46 am to GumboPot
quote:You came to the right place.
The desire to live and reproduce.
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