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Cell Computer

DNA and Enzyme Computer

In Israel a group of scientist designed a computer not made of microchips or motherboards. The computer the scientist have came up with id completely biological. It involves DNA and enzymes to produce its answers. The DNA acts has the software and the enzymes has the hardware. This biological computer can perform up to 330 trillion operations per second. This is just off one single DNA molecule. Everything in nature has their own nanocomputer but humans have been able to contain these computers. Until in 1994 when a scientist used a piece of DNA to solve a mathematical equation. To perform the test you first mix the DNA and enzyme together in the test tube. The scientist control the DNA's makeup and this is how the computer partly works. If a person was to look at the computer they would just see water. What they wouldn't know was that a single drop of this water could contain about a trillion bio-molecular devices in the one drop. The computer results do not show up on a computer screen but instead the results are seen in the length of the DNA. As a regular computer can perform many task and even spell check word documents or even solve mathematical equations for you right now the DNA computer can not. Right now the DNA computer can only do elementary functions . The main function for

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