To: Physicist
Well, okay, but your red blood cells aren't self-replicating, either ;)
To: general_re
The hardest part of cell division is duplicating and separating the DNA. It's probably pretty easy to come up with a cell division mechanism for a DNA-free cell. If the cell simply kept growing, it would eventually break up automatically.
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