Back down to our evolving Earth life forms.

Can the individual effect evolution independent of environmental changes?

The answer is yes.

We can turn on old genes in storage that have not been used in millennia.

We can change our chemical programing from our exogenetic ability in one short lifetime from a source directly outside our DNA.

Deliberately or not we can alter DNA WITH A VIRUS "SMOGGLER".


So when Steve asks what does our imagination see as a way of spreading life through the universe I would have to say a simple RNA virus would do the trick.

That little speck of inanimate life that is both dead and not dead.

If we ever look close enough to find microscopic space virus' we will find the near microscopic mustard seed that can grow into a mighty life process.

At any place in time it would seem you do not need intact DNA for life.