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Intricate Toiling Found In Nooks of DNA Once Believed to Stand Idle
Washington Post ^
| 6/14/07
| Rick Weiss
Posted on 06/14/2007 10:14:44 AM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo
The first concerted effort to understand all the inner workings of the DNA molecule is overturning a host of long-held assumptions about the nature of genes and their role in human health and evolution, scientists reported yesterday.
The new perspective reveals DNA to be not just a string of biological code but a dauntingly complex operating system that processes many more kinds of information than previously appreciated.
The findings, from a project involving hundreds of scientists in 11 countries and detailed in 29 papers being published today, confirm growing suspicions that the stretches of "junk DNA" flanking hardworking genes are not junk at all. But the study goes further, indicating for the first time that the vast majority of the 3 billion "letters" of the human genetic code are busily toiling at an array of previously invisible tasks.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dna; intelligentdesign; science
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Amazing!
To: DaveLoneRanger
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posted on
06/14/2007 10:15:21 AM PDT
by
Michael_Michaelangelo
(The best theory is not ipso facto a good theory.)
To: Michael_Michaelangelo
Kind of like Windows Vista............
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posted on
06/14/2007 10:16:39 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
To: Michael_Michaelangelo; DaveLoneRanger
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posted on
06/14/2007 10:16:51 AM PDT
by
TChris
(The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
To: Michael_Michaelangelo
The findings, from a project involving hundreds of scientists in 11 countries and detailed in 29 papers being published today, confirm growing suspicions that the stretches of "junk DNA" flanking hardworking genes are not junk at all. But the study goes further, indicating for the first time that the vast majority of the 3 billion "letters" of the human genetic code are busily toiling at an array of previously invisible tasks.I'm not surprised.
I've had my own theory for some time that organisms can imprint changes on their own DNA during their lifetimes and pass those changes directly to offspring. It's the best way, IMO, to explain ingrained and unlearned behaviors.
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posted on
06/14/2007 10:17:23 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(A store clerk has done more to fight the WOT than Rudy.)
To: Michael_Michaelangelo
The new perspective reveals DNA to be not just a string of biological code but a dauntingly complex operating system that processes many more kinds of information than previously appreciated.And it was all brought about by a series of random mutations. ::Sarc::
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posted on
06/14/2007 10:17:59 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: MEGoody
We know who did the programming, but who did the QA?
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posted on
06/14/2007 10:19:40 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: MEGoody
"And it was all brought about by a series of random mutations."
I've always suspected the successful Darwinian "random mutations" were actually geneticly encoded events which help species survive in a dynamic, changing world.
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posted on
06/14/2007 10:21:37 AM PDT
by
joebuck
To: AU72
We know who did the programming, but who did the QA?Same guy. Then he turned it over to His client who refused to follow the documentation.
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posted on
06/14/2007 10:25:33 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: Michael_Michaelangelo
...the stretches of "junk DNA" flanking hardworking genes are not junk at all. No sh** Sherlock! Of course they have a purpose. Every little atom in the strand has a purpose, and most of them we're unaware of (so far). Like an appendix, we may be able to live without it, but it was there for a purpose.
How can such "Doctors" and "Scientists" make such foolish assumptions just becuase they don't know what something does?
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posted on
06/14/2007 10:29:51 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: Michael_Michaelangelo
But I thought we understood everything about DNA and were ready to start cloning people?
To: theDentist
“How can such “Doctors” and “Scientists” make such foolish assumptions just becuase they don’t know what something does”
Ego.
If they don’t understand something then it doesn’t exist. Anyone who believes otherwise is a heretic and must be treated the fool.
To: Michael_Michaelangelo
I never realized evolutionary mutations were so smart! /sarc
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posted on
06/14/2007 10:41:50 AM PDT
by
Tolkien
(There are things more important than Peace. Freedom being one of those.)
To: Michael_Michaelangelo
I wonder what this will do to the mutation rate calculations based on the assumption that junk DNA is nonfunctional.
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posted on
06/14/2007 10:43:50 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: MEGoody
To: Michael_Michaelangelo
Completely un-amazing, unless you assume DNA designed and coded itself.
If evolution is true, then SETI is a complete scientific fraud. You cannot assume organization for one is conclusive evidence of intelligence and then turn around and state the exact opposite for life itself. Unless you are a scientist trolling for funding.
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posted on
06/14/2007 10:48:53 AM PDT
by
Diplomat
To: Michael_Michaelangelo
Quartermass and the Pit...
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posted on
06/14/2007 10:57:10 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(Angels on asteroids are abducting crop circles!)
To: Michael_Michaelangelo
No wonder we keep wearing out.
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posted on
06/14/2007 11:16:20 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: TChris
Sorry. Did a search using “DNA” and thought the coast was clear. :)
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posted on
06/14/2007 11:37:33 AM PDT
by
Michael_Michaelangelo
(The best theory is not ipso facto a good theory.)
To: dirtboy
Interesting you say that. I’ve wondered about something similar.
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posted on
06/14/2007 11:39:48 AM PDT
by
twigs
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