The thermosynthesis world therefore in theory accounts for the origin of the genetic machinery.
The team noted that the same could be true of other genetic machinery for other complex features.
Like a living syringe, it gradually empties itself into the victim and takes over its genetic machinery.
The virus and yeast should have compatible genetic machinery, he said.
Next to the brain, the most obvious biological information processor is the genetic machinery of the cell.
If your abiogenetic systems are free floating, they need to achieve replication (with or without genetic machinery) before that.
Computer scientists say that the vast information-handling capacity of nature's genetic machinery could be the basis for powerful new computers.
Differentiation is controlled by the genetic machinery of the cell.
So too are most of the mobile elements that sometimes stir genetic machinery into rapid adaptive change.
The first is to find out if stem cells and cancer cells may use the same genetic machinery to replicate themselves.