[PatrickHenry]

Bold and underlining added by me. Everybody be nice.

[PatrickHenry]

EvolutionPing

A pro-evolution science list with over 260 names. See list's description at my homepage. FReepmail to be added/dropped.

[Cicero]

It is also home to the gene with the longest known, protein-coding sequence - a 280,000 base pair gene that codes for a muscle protein, called titin, which is 33,000 amino acids long.

amazing complexity.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Scientists have tentative evidence that the gene may be used to make a protein in the brain and the testes.

Implying that women don't have this protein?

[Echo Talon]

Blah blah blah, a bunch of big words perpetuating a lie that we evolved from apes.

[derheimwill]

Everybody be nice.

What's that supposed to mean? I love it when bad logic is portrayed as science. Sure the scientists in question have identified the functions of gene sequences with great precision and skill but, to jump from there to the rest is simply rediculous. Everybody be nice? There's no need to be mean to anyone just for being wrong. It's their God given right :)

[Ahban]

PH,

Haven't the evos at FR been assuring us for years that the fusion of the two ape chromosomes was a fact? On at least one recent thread they even had pictures pointing to where the centromere would have been. How can these evo scientists just now be announcing proof of what your team has long assured me HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVEN?

[Verginius Rufus]

This wouldn't have happened if Bush had OK'd the Kyoto Protocol!

[VadeRetro]

Funny that false evidence trail (a pseudo-centromere sequence) would be there if humans and apes are separately created. It's as if someone wanted to fake a chromosome fusion event in the history of humans. </creo-mode>

[microgood]

These guys make the same mistake as the evolutionists. When an evolutionist states that because past fossils have similar characteristics to supposedly older fossils, they make the HUGE assumption that they have a common ancestor. These people are making the same mistake. The genes may have similar characteristics to apes and portions may be exactly the same, but you cannot conclude that they came from the same place. It is a logical fallacy.

Correlation does not equal causation, but many scientists fall into that trap. Look at all the epidemiological studies and the deception involved in them.

[frgoff]

Considering how little we actually know about the specific proteins coded by DNA in a cell, I don't think it's particularly wise to go around unilaterally declaring all these gene deserts.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that these deserts, much like the tonsils and appendix, aren't as vestigial and unused as biologists currently maintain they are.

Interestingly enough, an evolutionary paradigm led to the wrong conclusions about the appendix and tonsils being vestigial.

[Thinkin' Gal]

"gene deserts"

"Mmmm, jean desserts."

[RightWhale]

the medical community

It was most recently the medical industry, but now has become incorporated into the State as the Medical Institute. As soon as somebody damanded the right to medical care the game was over.

[longtermmemmory]

I wonder how much of the "desert" genes relate to the fact that genes can also be read by RNA three dimentionally. Protein production is not always linear along a DNA strand like we see on simple TV animations.

[CJ Wolf]

"centromere" I don't use the metric system, what's this about half an inche?

[AndrewC]

bolding/underlining omission.

However, researchers suspect such regions are important to human biology because they have been conserved throughout the evolution of mammals and birds, and work is now underway to figure out their exact functions.

[hershey]

Hmm, two large gene deserts. Well, it looks as if the Good Lord has a plan for us. He's left room to add stuff as needed. It's like soup. A little seasoning, then taste to see what's missing...and add that.

[Vaquero]

extremely cool.....I really love this stuff. you know the fact that interests me the most...(not from this piece) is that Humans are genetically closer to chimps and bonobo's than any frog specie is to any other frog specie.

[verity]

This still fails to explain the existence of Michael Jackson.

[biblewonk]

"gene desert"?

More unused DNA?

Ofcourse you realize this proves me right.

[narby]

Great post PH. Thanks for the ping.