To: SunkenCiv
"There are loads of so-called junk DNA, which doesn't seem to code for anything, and may have been spliced in by virus infections long ago. Or perhaps it relates to a lack of meaning in nuclear DNA. ;') " If it didn't convey some advantage for us we wouldn't still have it, would we?
32 posted on
11/24/2006 7:55:30 PM PST by
blam
To: blam
Mutations arise; also there are viruses. There isn't any advantage to any of it, only the occasional disadvantage -- and that's only supposition. :')
34 posted on
11/25/2006 9:22:47 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
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To: blam
Not really - what does your appendix do?
36 posted on
11/25/2006 10:29:30 AM PST by
patton
(Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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