No. Only 3 mechanics: replication, mutation and natural selection.

Write a weasel program and you will see for yourself.

current = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"

target = "THE LORD OF THE RINGS"

loop {

  replicas = replication(current)
  replicas = mutation(replicas)
  current = naturalSelection(replicas)

  print("generation", i, current)
  
  if (current == target)
     break   

}

You can thus make "Dog" turn into a "Cat". I rest my case :)