To: js1138
In your own words give me an example.....
310 posted on
03/15/2004 12:58:28 PM PST by
biblewonk
(I must try to answer all bible questions.)
To: biblewonk
What is your standard for complexity? I would say there are numerous possible standards, but chromosome count is easy to visualize.
I think you could argue that variations in existing genes is not what we ordinarily think of as an increase in complexity. It is possible, however to get large variations in form and appearance with trivial variations in genes. For example there is an insect that can vary its leg count with a single mutation. There are rats whose ability to smell can be increased by a thousandfold with a single mutation.
Bu increases in chrosome count offers a platform for building more complexity by successive variation. Like adding more disk space to your computer, it is initially blank, but offers room for expansion.
The articles I linked to offer some simple, observable examples of variation in chrosome count.
315 posted on
03/15/2004 1:10:11 PM PST by
js1138
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