The "top-down" approach to creating artificial life starts
A) in the laboratory with the raw ingredients of life, and seeks to reproduce life in much the same way that it presumably originated billions of years ago
B) with a complex organism and then removes cells that are not absolutely necessary
C) with existing organisms and genetically strips them down, then tries to rebuild them into new species
D) with animal cells and attempts to clone them

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The "top-down" approach involves taking existing organisms and simplifying them by removing non-essential genes, then attempting to reconstruct or modify them into new forms.

The "Top-Down" Approach to Creating Artificial Life Starts