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Craig Venter and Claire Fraser are working to create a minimal organism.. They are starting with Mycoplasma genitalium, a bacterium that has 517 genes. By disabling its genes one at a time, they discovered that 265350 of them code for essential proteins. The scientists are synthesizing the essential genes and inserting them, one by one, into an engineered cell consisting only of a plasma membrane and cytoplasm. They want to see how few genes it takes to build a new life form. What properties would such a cell have to exhibit for you to conclude that it was alive?

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Researchers looking for fossils of the earliest life forms face many hurdles. For example, few sedimentary rocks date back more than 3 billion years. Review what you learned about plate tectonics. Explain why so few remaining samples of these early rocks remain.

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