We show that there is a regular language which cannot be generated by conte
xt-free evolutionary grammars, thus disproving a conjecture from Dassow et
al. (BioSystems 43 (1997) 169-177). However, all regular languages which ar
e strictly bounded can be generated by context-free evolutionary grammars.
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