talha on Nostr: DNA/RNA is always changing and small “mistakes” and mutations can be introduced ...

DNA/RNA is always changing and small “mistakes” and mutations can be introduced at so many levels. Consider also things like transposons, and retroviral DNA integration, and the picture of “perfectly preserved” structure becomes more cloudy. And we didn’t even dive into chimerism where different cells have slightly different DNA. And there is also mitochondrial DNA that is separate. Not to mention epigenetics as well.

And code is even similar, the same code may not always run on the newer version of a compiler. And computer environments are hard to replicate exactly to the most precise of levels, after all we can’t go back in time physically. Copies can be lossy and meta information may get lost over time.

In fact, degradation may be key to new innovations.