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Fundamental taboos of biology.

Biochemistry. Biokhimiia - 1 Sept 2009

Sverdlov E D

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This paper formulates some taboos relating to living systems and cognition of these systems: in nature, there exist no two identical living complex multicellular organisms; there is no way to create an exact copy of a multicellular organism; there is no way to obtain two identical clones of a unicellular organism if they contain a sufficiently large number of cells; based on comparing present-day organisms, it is...

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PMID: 19916904
DOI: 10.1134/s0006297909090016

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