>
>Nice post.  I agree completely that this is the essence of organismal
>reproduction, although I think that the term "replication" implies a
>fidelity that is too great to accurately describe organismal reproduction.
>I would also like to point out that whole organisms are not the only thing
>reproduced in the process.  The term replication is more often used to
>describe the templated copying of DNA, because mutation is so rare (at least
>in modern organisms) that fidelity is much higher than it is for the
>structure of the overall metabolism.  So I am comfortable saying that the
>DNA is replicated, but the organism and its metabolic structure is
>reproduced.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Guy

I think your word choices
were indeed better than
mine -
Thanks.
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