The "Bottom-Up" Approach to Creating Artificial Life Starts

question 45

Multiple Choice

The "bottom-up" approach to creating artificial life starts

• A) with simple bacteria and attempts to add DNA sequences to them to make them more complex
• B) with advanced robots and attempts to make them able to reproduce
• C) in the laboratory with the raw ingredients of life, and seeks to reproduce life in much the same way that it presumably originated billions of years ago
• D) with existing organisms and genetically strips them down, then tries to rebuild them into new species

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Definitions:

Centralized Communication Network

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Groupthink

A phenomenon where the desire for harmony or conformity in a group leads to an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

Critical Discussion

A comprehensive analysis or debate where ideas, assumptions, and evidence are questioned and examined in depth.

Unpleasant Circumstances

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