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To: allmendream
"The only DNA that does contain genetic code is DNA that gets transcribed into mRNA in the context of a gene. Less than 5% of our genome is DNA in the context of a gene that contains a genetic code." - allmendream

DNA is comprised sugars and bases. The sugars are structural. One presumes that you aren't trying to count the sugars to arrive at your 95% to 5% ratio.

The bases are *all* either genetic code (e.g. for processing) or data (e.g. for the life/program blueprint).

If we only understand 5% of the code/data, we would be foolish to be imperical about the other 95%.

Oooooooh, "junk DNA." One observer's "junk" might be another programmer's comments in the code. Comments that could easily be encrypted, by the way.

67 posted on 02/03/2010 10:29:52 AM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
The genetic code refers to a specific code that “translates” into an amino acid sequence.

For example, the base triple codon AUG specifies the amino acid Methionine.

The promoter region of a gene has DNA that forms a specific 3-D conformation that will bind to a protein transcription factor. There is no “code” involved, just one 3-D structure binding to a complementary 3-D structure.

There is no doubt that the promoter region of a gene is functional; but there is, quite simply, no “code” involved - certainly not the genetic code.

Less than 5% of our genome contains DNA that is transcribable into mRNA that contains an ACTUAL “genetic code”. Genetic = gene. A gene is a region of DNA that “codes” for a protein. Thus DNA with a “genetic code” is genetic DNA that is translatable into the amino acid sequence of a protein.

Thus your statement that “all DNA contains genetic code” is completely wrong.

69 posted on 02/03/2010 10:49:13 AM PST by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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