Posted on 01/15/2008 7:55:39 PM PST by neverdem
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If you can use an update in genetics, those links in comment# 1 are FReebies.
Well, a plant can’t learn, so much more “instinct” instructions have to be encoded.
A good brain that can learn and adapt can take the place of all those genes.
Ah, come on Pat! You made that up, didn’t you?
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I taught A&P at a JUCO last year and I had to get a refresher on genetics to be able to teach. I did more studying than when I took the courses the first times because of all of the new information that has been revealed during the past 20+ years. Quite an eye opener to me.
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$80 million is a tad small a sum for learning more about 99% of human DNA when 1% has proved so complicated.
Worth looking at?
How do you tell whether a chromosome is a boy chromosome or a girl chromosome?
Pull down its genes and look.
"A new analysis, one that harnesses the power of comparing genome sequences of various organisms, now reveals that the true number of human genes is about 20,500, thousands fewer than what is currently listed in human gene catalogs.
“God don’t make junk.”
Why in the world would we have “left-over” anything?
I think the operative term here is “appears” to be junk.
Of course. Translated loosely, it means, “my OPINION is that it APPEARS to be junk.”
Thanks for putting it into perspective for me! LOL!
As more complications in DNA sequences are discovered, what gets credit for this intricacy? Evolution. It’s funny.
I can imagine stumbling upon the Taj Mahal someday and being amazed at the stunning shape rocks had evolved into... and then as I explore the interior, becoming more in awe of the evolution process. Isn’t it just incredible how something so complex can be put together with just time and environmental change and no outside creative design or intent whatsoever?
Try as I might to understand the formation, I would never get close, and need to constantly change my theories, until I finally acknowledged the fact that the Taj Mahal had a builder, and the builder had a purpose for the building.
That joke was both X-rated and Y-rated.
Besides Chinese food, you mean... ;’)
"For thirty years, nobody disputed this 'fact'. One group of scientists abandoned their experiments on human liver cells because they could only find twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in each cell. Another researcher invented a method of separating the chromosomes, but still he thought he saw twenty-four pairs. It was not until 1955, when an Indonesian named Joe-Hin Tjio travelled from Spain to Sweden to work with Albert Levan, that the truth dawned. Tjio and Levan, using better techniques, plainly saw twenty-three pairs. They even went back and counted twenty-three pairs in photographs in books where the caption stated that there were twenty-four pairs. There are none so blind as do not wish to see." (Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, p 23-24)
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