Why do living things reproduce?

edscdk said:
every collection of dna that lacks a mechanisum to reproduce, or is smart enough to make a choice that overwrides its genetic program and decides not to reproduce ceases to exist so its genetic code dies... every living thing is the result of billions if not trillion of generations and every time an offpring decides (or cannot) reproduce its dna is lost,

life is programmed to reproduce and has been since the first ?amino acides? became self replicating ?a billion years ago?

worker ants / bees are still related to the queen so preserve their DNA by looking after the queen / hive / young
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me227 said:
Because the ones that didn't reproduce didn't survive. They need to reproduce before they die, which every living thing does.
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Bang on. All life originated from what were essentially self-replicating automata. The reason these automata developed such tenacity is precisely because they could reproduce. If they couldn't there'd be no such thing as life.
 
salami1212 said:
Why does any living thing reproduce? Why does a plant have a seed? I mean why would they want them? There not concious beings, why would they want to reproduce their species if they didnt actually care about their species, but then thats ridiculous because a plant cant care.
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They don't "want" to reproduce, they reproduce. It's an important semantic difference.

We're just husks for our genes to persist.
 
Organisms reproduce because a bunch of random molecules came together one day and accidentally managed to replicate itself. The whole process wildly spiraled out of control to produce: You.
 
Craig1981 said:
Come on baby! Lets preserve the species :cool:
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That's probably pretty much it. Man and woman one day are experimenting and they just so happen to have sex (back then not having any definition), man likes it, somehow it produces a third wheel, man thinks that crazy, I liked it though, maybe I should convince her we have to do it, they continue doing it thinking its out of necessity.

All other living organisms copy (except plants, really, their reproduction is just down to chance) and the male half of the species uses it as an excuse to get their end away.
 
I think the point is the vast majority did not reproduce, a vanishingly small percentage did / do and they are what you see now.

The rest, obviously, died out as quickly as they came into being.
 
salami1212 said:
Random as frack question. But im curious to your opinions.

Why does any living thing reproduce? Why does a plant have a seed? I mean why would they want them? There not concious beings, why would they want to reproduce their species if they didnt actually care about their species, but then thats ridiculous because a plant cant care.

Damn thats really confusing but I think youll get the jist of it.
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For one it gives them the opportunity to change and therefore adapt to a changing environment. Also due to a problem with cell-replication meaning with each division the teleomere gets shorter (thereby inducing the potential of drastic error with age) there is the problem that things can not live forever without the risk of catastrophic failure. A seed is just a method to achieve this goal. It is not a matter of caring it is a matter of the ones that did fulfil the goal existed and are here and the ones that didn't have been lost to a forgotten place in history.
 
I'm sorry, but the question that really needs answering before this one is - where do birds go to die? :o :confused:
 
Because if they didn't they would die out. Or if a species live forever they wouldn't evolve and would be superseded by those that do.

The organisms we have on the planet today are here for no other reason that they work better than anything that came before it.
 
edscdk said:
but the reason for the bee visiting the plant is not to help reproduction - well as far as the bee is concerned
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Basically, two plants and a bee are needed to help plants reproduce. The bee is not giving consent because it doesn't know what's going on. Therefore the plants are evil and perverted and the bee merely a used victim.
 
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