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.... CREEPING CHROMOSOMES.
BY. FENDER TUCKER..
. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL COMPUTER.PROG
RAMS THAT SIMULATE THE GROWTH OF.ORGANIS
MS IN PARTICULAR ENVIRONMENTS..KNOWN AS
"LIFE" GAMES, THESE PROGRAMS.MOST OFTEN
USE AN ALGORITHM BASED ON.THE REPRODUCTI
ON OF CELLS IN A.BACTERIA COLONY... YOU
CAN THINK OF CREEPING.CHROMOSOMES AS A
LIGHT-HEARTED VERSION.OF THE GAME OF "LI
FE." BUT WHILE YOU.MIGHT RECOGNIZE THE
CHROMOSOMES AND.AMINO ACIDS FROM WHAT YO
U'VE LEARNED.IN BIOLOGY CLASS, WE DON'T
PRETEND.THAT CREEPING CHROMOSOMES IS A.R
EALISTIC SIMULATION OF HOW.CHROMOSOMES B
EHAVE IN REAL LIFE... BUT HOPEFULLY, YO
U WILL FIND A.(SCIENTIFIC) METHOD TO OUR
MADNESS..CREEPING CHROMOSOMES GIVES YOU
A.CHANCE TO PERFORM EXPERIMENTS IN.CONT
ROLLED EVOLUTION. YOUR GOAL:.DEVELOP CH
ROMOSOMES WITH THE BEST.CHANCES OF SURVI
VAL IN A PREDETERMINED.ENVIRONMENT... T
HE CHROMOSOMES YOU DEAL WITH IN.CREEPING
CHROMOSOMES COMPETE WITH ONE.ANOTHER FO
R SURVIVAL. TWO TRAITS.DETERMINE THE SU
CCESS OF A CHROMOSOME:.CURIOSITY AND STR
ENGTH. "CURIOSITY".IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE
IT DETERMINES THE.MOBILITY OF THE CHROM
OSOMES. MOBILE.CHROMOSOMES ARE MORE LIK
ELY TO BUMP.INTO THE AMINO ACIDS THAT TH
E.CHROMOSOMES NEED TO REPLICATE AND.GROW
. STRENGTH IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE.IF A ST
RONG CHROMOSOME TOUCHES A.WEAKER ONE WIT
H ITS "HEAD," THE WEAKER.ONE IS KILLED..
. AS YOU MAY HAVE GUESSED, THE TRAITS.O
F CURIOSITY AND STRENGTH ARE.INVERSELY R
ELATED. IN OTHER WORDS, AS.CURIOSITY IN
CREASES, STRENGTH.DECREASES, AND VICE VE
RSA. IT'S YOUR.JOB TO FIND THE COMBINAT
ION OF TRAITS.THAT IS BEST FOR SURVIVAL.
.. IN YOUR EXPERIMENT, YOU ENDOW A.NUMB
ER OF CHROMOSOMES (1-15) WITH.VARYING DE
GREES OF CURIOSITY AND.STRENGTH. THE PR
OGRAM THEN PLACES THE.CHROMOSOMES, WHICH
ARE COLOR CODED, IN.A "TANK" CONTAINING
EIGHT AMINO ACIDS..A SCORE BOARD AT THE
BOTTOM OF THE.SCREEN KEEPS UP WITH HOW
WELL EACH.CHROMOSOME DOES. WHEN ALL BUT
ONE.CHROMOSOME HAS DIED, THE SCREEN'S.B
ORDER COLOR WILL BE THE SAME COLOR AS.TH
E VICTORIOUS CHROMOSOME'S. A DOUBLE."WAF
FLE" WILL APPEAR WHERE THE LAST.CHROMOSO
ME DIED. THEN, AFTER YOU PRESS.A KEY, YO
U CAN CHOOSE WHETHER OR NOT.YOU WANT TO
SAVE THE SCORES FOR THE.NEXT EXPERIMENT.
IF YOU DO, THE NEXT.EXPERIMENT WILL CON
TINUE ADDING TO.THE ORIGINAL SCORES....A
FEW DEFINITIONS....--------------------
.. WITHIN EVERY CELL NUCLEUS OF YOUR.BO
DY, THREADLIKE CHROMOSOMES CONTAIN.HERED
ITY INFORMATION IN THE FORM OF.GENES. G
ENES, WHICH APPEAR AS LIGHT.AND DARK BAN
DINGS ON THE CHROMOSOME,.ARE IN FACT SEG
MENTS OF DNA MOLECULES... THE DOUBLE HE
LIX OF THE DNA.(DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID) M
OLECULE.CARRIES THE CODING THAT DETERMIN
ES.WHETHER AN ORGANISM IS A HUMAN BEING,
.A LOBSTER, OR AN EGG PLANT. DNA.CONTRO
LS CHEMICAL REACTIONS WITHIN.CELLS, AND
THUS CONTROLS THE GROWTH.AND FUNCTION OF
THE ENTIRE ORGANISM... IF ALL LIFE IS
BASED ON DNA, WHY IS.THERE SUCH INCREDIB
LE DIVERSITY?.THINK OF A DNA MOLECULE AS
A LADDER.THAT IS TWISTED AFTER EVERY FO
UR.RUNGS. (EACH "RUNG" OF A DNA MOLECUL
E.IS MADE OF ONE OF FOUR CHEMICAL.SUBUNI
TS.) THE ORDER OF THESE.SUBUNITS IS DIF
FERENT FOR EACH LIVING.THING. IN THE 46
HUMAN CHROMOSOMES,.THERE ARE APPROXIMAT
ELY FOUR BILLION.RUNGS. HERE'S ANOTHER
WAY TO THINK.ABOUT IT: THE NUMBER OF SEQ
UENCES.POSSIBLE HAS BEEN CALCULATED TO B
E.GREATER THAN THE NUMBER OF SUB-ATOMIC.
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