Think they will finally have an answer for this?
Posted on 11/10/2008 7:54:59 PM PST by Soliton
Over the summer, Sonja Prohaska decided to try an experiment. She would spend a day without ever saying the word “gene.” Dr. Prohaska is a bioinformatician at the University of Leipzig in Germany. In other words, she spends most of her time gathering, organizing and analyzing information about genes. “It was like having someone tie your hand behind your back,” she said. But Dr. Prohaska decided this awkward experiment was worth the trouble, because new large-scale studies of DNA are causing her and many of her colleagues to rethink the very nature of genes. They no longer conceive of a typical gene as a single chunk of DNA encoding a single protein. “It cannot work that way,” Dr. Prohaska said. There are simply too many exceptions to the conventional rules for genes.
It turns out, for example, that several different proteins may be produced from a single stretch of DNA. Most of the molecules produced from DNA may not even be proteins, but another chemical known as RNA. The familiar double helix of DNA no longer has a monopoly on heredity. Other molecules clinging to DNA can produce striking differences between two organisms with the same genes. And those molecules can be inherited along with DNA.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
We’re really in kindergarten when it comes to our understanding of biology. Exciting times...
Look at the advances in knowledge in the last decade or two, and imagine where we’ll be in another 20 years.
God’s designs are there for us to learn from......
And improve on...
If Obama socializes health care, medicine will progress very slowly. The limited progress will be in a direction that only a liberal will love.
Abortions, AIDs research, euthanasia, research on unborn aborted fetuses, homosexual diseases, etc will all be significantly advanced, but in ways that only a government could like.
Sounds more like a kludge than a deliberate design.
no, no kludge at all, the original design was perfect, the degradation over the eons has made the imperfections....just like a new car will eventually fall apart even if it is never drive....
I know, but we've gone beyond one-celled organisms.
...the degradation over the eons has made the imperfections...
Mutations are both beneficial and harmful. The really harmful ones are weeded out. The beneficial ones spread.
just like a new car will eventually fall apart even if it is never drive....
Extremely poor analogy. New cars do not reproduce in your driveway.
The only function of DNA is to make useful RNA’s. Many of the most useful RNA’s are mRNA’s that code for proteins.
Other folks get fired for surfin' the web at work. A little later Venter was forced out as president of Celera.Scientist Reveals Genome Secret: It's HimWhen scientists at Celera Genomics announced two years ago that they had decoded the human genome, they said the genetic data came from anonymous donors and presented it as a universal human map. But the scientist who led the effort, Dr. J. Craig Venter, now says that the genome decoded was largely his own. Dr. Venter also says that he started taking fat-lowering drugs after analyzing his genes... [M]embers of Celera's scientific advisory board expressed disappointment that Dr. Venter subverted the anonymous selection process that they had approved... Though the five individuals who contributed to Celera's genome are marked by separate codes, Dr. Venter's is recognizable as the largest contribution. He said he had inherited from one parent the variant gene known as apoE4, which is associated with abnormal fat metabolism and the risk of Alzheimer's, and that he was taking fat-lowering drugs to counteract its effects... Dr. Arthur Caplan, a biomedical ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, said, "Any genome intended to be a landmark should be kept anonymous. It should be a map of all us, not of one, and I am disappointed if it is linked to a person."
Scientist Reveals Genome Secret: It's Him
by Nicholas Wade
April 27, 2002
How Science Is Rewriting the Book on Genes
The Washington Post | November 12, 2007 | David Brown
Posted on 11/12/2007 1:32:15 AM PST by neverdem
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Silly me, I thought this was about Craig Venter.The familiar double helix of DNA no longer has a monopoly on heredity.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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Whoops, I forgot again.
Think they will finally have an answer for this?
there are still one celled organisms that are more complicated then anything man has ever designed..
and the car analogy refers to degradation over time, not reproduction.
perfection in the original adam and eve was destroyed by the original sin and the degradation that followed thereafter....
perfection made imperfect due to sin.
obvious to all but the vain and those who perfer darkness to the light.
Quick ...lower her genome
perfection made imperfect due to sin.
That is a religious belief, not something for which there is any scientific evidence. It does not belong in a scientific discussion.
How much lower can I get?
and neither does the religion of secular humanism masquerading as science....
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