wellwisher
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You also need to assume that the individual amino acids are independent as to whether they are right or left.
And, in practice, the assumption of equal probability AND the assumption of independence are BOTH wrong.
And that invalidates the whole calculation.
If the individual events are NOT independent, you cannot even estimate the end probability by a simple multiplication. The result of doing such can be many orders of magnitude off from the correct value.
Bio-active DNA is a right handed helix while bio-active proteins are all left handed helices. This tells us that life is not about randomness, since spontaneous synthesis of protein, for example, will form equal amounts of left and right helices. Life has decrease the entropy; complexity, of all possible helices, by 50%. This adds an entropic potential, that helps with the bioactivity; push to complexity in other ways.
I am not sure why the Biosciences still do not get this. They keep assuming balanced dice; statistical assumptions, when Life has all its helical dice loaded to fall one way.