Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #114


The year is 2124. Thanks to new im­prove­ments in tele­por­ta­tion, the In­ter­galac­tic Re­search In­sti­tute has gath­ered 1000 bi­o­log­i­cal sam­ples from each of 1000 hab­it­able plan­ets in 1000 galax­ies. The sam­ples were an­a­lyzed with new model In­stant An­a­lyz­ers ca­pa­ble of de­ter­min­ing the nu­cleotide se­quence bases (to use old quaint ter­mi­nol­ogy) of 100 mil­lion in one minute. The re­sults were quite re­veal­ing. No sig­nif­i­cant ho­mol­ogy (to re­fer to an out­dated con­cept) was found be­tween the sam­ples from dif­fer­ent, al­though some was found be­tween the sam­ples from within a given galaxy. Old timers may re­mem­ber that some 100 years ago a sim­i­lar prob­lem arose re­gard­ing the se­quence of phages on Earth. Now what? What is your rec­om­men­da­tion to the In­sti­tute for what to do next?

 

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