Bootstrapping (biology)

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The term "bootstrapping" is indeed used in biology, but in lots of different contexts; there is no single unifying concept of "biological bootstrapping" that I can discern, and this article seems to engage in WP:OR suggesting there is. Article has been unsourced since 2009 and was orphaned until recently, but the one article linking to this one is referring to bootstrapping in its more common (computational) sense, thus it's an inappropriate link. Best to just let this neglected stub die rather than introduce confusion. (proposed by WeirdNAnnoyed)

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The idea of bootstrapping is significant in a number of fields in the biological sciences. The process by which a fertilised ovum develops into an embryo, particularly the way in which the nuclear genome is expressed differently in its various cells as these differentiate, is one example of bootstrapping. The evolution of progressively better adapted organs through natural selection in a lineage of organisms is another.

Some biologists, including Graham Cairns-Smith, believe that the origin of life itself may have been a bootstrap process as one or more systems of biological information storage formed the foundation for successor systems that ultimately supplanted them culminating in the emergence of our current DNA-based system.

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