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To: Ilaine who wrote (6709)	8/5/2001 3:54:30 AM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

CB - >>In particular, could a sterile robotic colonization starship clone viable humans from only human cells?<< Yes. Easy as pi. Slick but true answer. I'm not sure that I have made clear what I'm really asking. In nature, many organisms have co-evolved to the point that at least one of a pair or group simply cannot survive in the absence of the others. This is often true of birds, insects and plants as, for example, a flower's shape and color may be highly evolved to utilize one specific bird or insect in its reproductive strategy. However, the genetic information contained in the cells of either organism in a co-evolved pair is not sufficient to reproduce a viable organism by itself. My question is whether human genetic information is sufficient by itself to reproduce a viable human. I believe that there is at least one intestinal micro-organism in humans that helps digestion, but I don't know if it's vital. But I doubt that its existence in human generation to generation is a result of re-creation due to human genetic information. Regards, Don