To: vannrox; scripter; Heartlander; Dataman; gore3000; f.Christian; Alamo-Girl
They found that it does not cause cancer in humans, but does act as an oncogene in mice. This makes it unique among oncogenes in being a normal human gene which can cause cancer in a species that lacks it.Hmmmmm... I thought that certain people have "proved" given evidence (a just-so story) that if a gene is found in one bacteria, it functioned in a similar manner in another bacteria. That is how something is made reducibly complex.
52 posted on
02/19/2003 8:14:21 PM PST by
AndrewC
To: AndrewC
Thank you for the heads up! Hmmmm... that is verrry interesting!
To: AndrewC
Read the article. This gene is the result of the fusing of two duplicate genes 21 million years ago. Mice do not have it, only hominoids. Mice may share the two genes that gave rise to the duplications, but they do not share the duplicated and fused gene. Your argument is a nonstarter.
66 posted on
02/20/2003 2:48:03 AM PST by
Junior
(I want my, I want my, I want my chimpanzees)
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