To: Southack
So...technically, an organism would be genetically superior if it had all of its functionality without also having unused genetic code as baggage. Natural Selection *should* favor those without the unused code...If the cost of keeping the code around is extremely low, then it probably won't get selected out any time soon.
90 posted on
02/07/2005 8:57:27 PM PST by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: xm177e2
"If the cost of keeping the code around is extremely low, then it probably won't get selected out any time soon."
If we have a fast-changing bacteria, say 100 alleged "mutational events" per day, would 4 billion years be long enough to see some unused code get filtered out?
96 posted on
02/07/2005 9:09:12 PM PST by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: xm177e2
So...technically, an organism would be genetically superior if it had all of its functionality without also having unused genetic code as baggage. Natural Selection *should* favor those without the unused code...If the cost of keeping the code around is extremely low, then it probably won't get selected out any time soon.
Just like real code...there's always time to do it over, but there's never time to do it right in the first place!
136 posted on
02/08/2005 8:02:46 AM PST by
grey_whiskers
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