“you have inadvertently posted an article that supports what I said several posts ago.”
No one disagreed that coding regions have greater homology among species than non-coding regions.
This of course was not a prediction under the modern synthesis - that genes would be so similar and essentially interchangeable among species. It was felt genes would be species-specific and differences in genes among spices would account for for their differences.
What genomics has shown is that the important regions of the genome for organismal specificity in eukaryotes is in the non-coding regions that regulate chromatin remodeling and gene expression.
[[What genomics has shown is that the important regions of the genome for organismal specificity in eukaryotes is in the non-coding regions that regulate chromatin remodeling and gene expression.]]
Is this a fancy way of saying that non coding areas are indeed unique and species specific? IF that is the case, then why in the world wouldn’t the non coding areas be taken into account when comparing two separate species?