Genosimulation (A Teen & Young Adult Science Fiction): A Young Adult Science Fiction Thriller

Genosimulation (A Teen & Young Adult Science Fiction): A Young Adult Science Fiction Thriller by L.L. Fine

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    Mitochondria: So how this software, which is the DNA, builds
hardware – which is an adult body, or a body of a microbe for that matter…
    Cruel Ruler: How?
    Mitochondria: Even standard computer software, if it wants
to display something on the screen, builds it from another hardware which is
the screen – an electronic beam that blasts the screen. Or the program of an
automobile factory operates hundreds of robots which take the metal and build a
car. So where are the robots who build the human body? How does DNA construct a
person?
    Cruel Ruler: Oh, I understood the question. Really, how?
Surely there aren't any robots.
    Mitochondria: There are, sort of. A single, very smart and
multi-purpose robot. The answer is that once the DNA is formed, it affects its
environment, because each of the letters that make up the words of the program
is a protein that attracts another protein, in simple chemical terms. What
happens is that in a short time, a DNA constructs for himself, using that
chemical attraction, a molecule just like him but opposite. Its name is… do the
viewers at home know?
    Cruel Ruler: RNA?
    Mitochondria: Respect! You do understand something of your
life. Literally …
    Cruel Ruler: My head’s starting to hurt because of you. Why
won't you tell me more stories from Bnei Brak?
    Mitochondria: LOL, want some? I have quite a few.
    Cruel Ruler: No! Genosimulation!
    Mitochondria: In short, not to make things too complicated,
the DNA builds the RNA, and then gets separated from it, and sends it across
the human cell, which will attract more chemicals, and so begins the chemical
building of materials and processes.
    Mitochondria: Now don't hold me to that, that's not exactly
what happens there, but for one who understands biology at your level, it
should be clear enough. Don’t forget that I'm not a geneticist myself, but a
mathematician and a programmer, this is not exactly my field.
    Cruel Ruler: I forgive you. Now what does that have to do
with the simulation?
    Mitochondria: Oh!!!! Now our brilliance!
    Mitochondria: The whole world’s trying to figure out what's
going on within the genome, crack the language by medical means - we went
differently. Sit tight.
    Cruel Ruler: Sitting.
    Mitochondria: I want to see you on the camera.
    Cruel Ruler: I don't want to!
    Mitochondria: Bye.
    Cruel Ruler: ??? Are you crazy?
    Mitochondria: Camera! Now!
    Cruel Ruler: Ok, ok, deviant.
    Mitochondria: So you're sitting - oh, there. You look good
shaved.
    Mitochondria: We decided on two things.
    Mitochondria: a. The genome is a code like any other code,
and for that we have established a team of programmers and cryptologists who
deal with its decoding. I'm not exactly the team leader, but the number one
there.
    Mitochondria: b. If we have a complete map of the genome
program - and we have, in means I will not tell you about, all it takes is to
let it run. Put the three billion lines of code to work, just like it happens
in the human cell.
    Mitochondria: The human cell also doesn’t understand the
language, just like us. It only has chemicals which recombine into other
materials and so on.
    Mitochondria: So, what did we do? We built a supercomputer,
the most powerful in the world, guaranteed. And we let it run a three-billion
words program, when all it has to do is to attach proteins to each other,
virtual ones, of course.
    Mitochondria: Got it?
    Cruel Ruler: I think so
    Mitochondria: So explain it back to me.
    Cruel Ruler: You don’t try to understand the language, you
just act according to it. This means that your computer receives three billion
words, then builds several billion other words as RNA molecules, then begins to
attach proteins to the business to see where everything is evolving?
    Mitochondria: Bravo. This is exactly what happened. Of
course this is only the beginning, because immediately all kinds of complex
compounds were created, and the computer should realize that –for example - a
high concentration of

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