That means that in decades to come, Gershenfeld hopes not just to have created the "Star Trek replicator" that he dreams of, but replicators that replicate themselves, spreading around the world in a massive, self-perpetuating, self-funded network.
Note that DNA are, but chickens are not, replicators, since the latter do not replicate themselves as wholes.
Central to the tree model are the assumptions that through evolutionary time entities replicate themselves (or are replicated), and that this process of replication produces the reproductively linked sequences of similar entities that constitute lineages.
Reproduction, process by which organisms replicate themselves.
"These materials don't replicate themselves," she said.
But in history events rarely quite replicate themselves.
They infect a cell, hijack its machinery to replicate themselves, and then escape to infect new cells.
By Jeffrey Toobin Presidents reveal themselves, and often replicate themselves, in the Justices they nominate to the Supreme Court.
Their troops can also implant viruses in enemy machines, and other robots can create large defensive shields or replicate themselves.
The problems that confronted Greece could not precisely replicate themselves in either the United States or Britain.
Unlike shoelaces, though, chromosomes replicate themselves from time to time as the cells they are in divide.
