Tree of Synthetic Life


	Tree of Synthetic Life

deb2012

5-10-2008 3:32 PM

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creating a new tree of life for artificial biology---there are now four classifications of life: Natural Biological, Genetically-Engineered Biological, Synthetic Biological, and Synthetic Nonbiological

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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_laboratorium"><EM>Mycoplasma 
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Craig_Venter_Institute">J. Craig Venter 
Institute</A>. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=767">The point of <EM>Mycoplasma laboratorium</EM> is to implement a “minimal 
bacterial genome”, a jumping-off point for future synthetic species. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=767">All of these species would fall under <EM>Anthropobiota</EM>, as long as the 
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