came across this in a blog and it reminded me of 40,000 monkey's randomly typing. Theory is one of them will eventually type out one of Shakespears plays, if their lifespan were long enough.
The amino acid numbers game: Ok…so just to give you a small dose of the statistics involved in making this thing happen. I’m going to lay out for you the probability of constructing a single functioning amino acid by random chance. Amino acids are CRITICAL for life, they make up proteins. Proteins are what carry out different functions within our bodies. Specific proteins do specific things. Anyways, take the smallest protein, it consist of 100 amino acids (there are 20 different amino acids in all). In order to create it, 100 amino acids have to be placed in an EXACT order, in order for the protein to function properly. So as those of you who have taken stats know, the odds of creating that one protein (and there are thousands….some quite longer than 100 amino acids long) is (1/20)^100 = 10e13
2007-12-07
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