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If you build a cell from only eukaryote DNA instructions, it won't have any mitochondria and be unable to copy itself.

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Mitochondrial DNA is still DNA.

Symbiotic replicators that rely on the presence of each other to reproduce (like cycles of quines?) are also still replicators.

I think also the Golgi apparatus has no DNA. You can't build one if you don't have one. But apparently we're still not sure where it comes from.

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Mitochondrial DNA is still DNA.

Symbiotic replicators that rely on the presence of each other to reproduce (like cycles of quines?) are also still replicators.

I think also the Golgi apparatus has no DNA. You can't build one if you don't have one. But apparently we're still not sure where it comes from.

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