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To: allmendream
"Unless it is translatable into an amino acid sequence via the genetic key I provided it is not the genetic code." - allmendream

That's entirely incorrect and betrays a fundamental lack of knowledge of DNA (e.g. transcribing into mRNA).

86 posted on 02/03/2010 3:39:56 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

Wow are you TRYING to be obtuse, or are you just so ignorant that you cannot help it?

How many times must I mention to you that DNA is transcribed into mRNA and that it is the mRNA that is translated via the GENETIC CODE into the amino acid sequence of a protein before you realize what it is I am talking about.

DNA to mRNA isn’t a “code” in the same way that mRNA to an Amino Acid sequence is a code. The only code to transcribe DNA into mRNA is that A = A, C = C, G = G, and T = U. That is not the genetic code.

Moreover, not all DNA is transcribed into mRNA. Thus this does nothing to back up your idiotic assertion that all DNA contains the genetic code.

Please tell me what functions short repeat DNA has been shown to have. You insist that it has a function, what is it?

Do you consider a philips head screwdriver fitting into a philips head screw to be the enactment of some sort of “code”?

If you do it would go a long way towards explaining your delusion that anything having to do with DNA must be some sort of code (even if it is not specifically the genetic code).

The genetic code is something specific. Not all DNA contains information translatable via the genetic code any more than every string of letters and numbers conveys an intelligible message when fed into an enigma machine. The promoter region of a gene is no more in genetic code than the introduction to a coded message is part of the code.

“Ok, we have a special message for all our little orphan Annie fan club members.” is NOT in code, not part of the code, and doesn’t contain code.

The alphanumerics that needed to be deciphered into BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE was what was in code, the code key being the little decoder ring.

The “decoder ring” for the genetic code is that chart I posted. Unless the DNA sequence can be transcribed into mRNA that is translated into a functional amino acid sequence via the “decoder” of a ribosome; it simply cannot be said to contain the genetic code.

Unless of course you want to sound like a complete ignoramus.


87 posted on 02/03/2010 4:02:14 PM PST by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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