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To: PatrickHenry
It is also home to the gene with the longest known, protein-coding sequence - a 280,000 base pair gene that codes for a muscle protein, called titin, which is 33,000 amino acids long.

amazing complexity.

4 posted on 04/13/2005 6:37:35 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

Yeah, but hardly irreducible even in the wildest fantasy, which is why the ID raconteurs don't torture us endlessly about titin. It basically evolved from a series of gene duplications in tandem with the evolution of multicellularity, giving rise to regularly repeating domain patterns.


10 posted on 04/13/2005 6:53:06 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: Cicero
It is also home to the gene with the longest known, protein-coding sequence - a 280,000 base pair gene that codes for a muscle protein, called titin, which is 33,000 amino acids long.

amazing complexity.

Nature is one fast typing monkey!

216 posted on 04/14/2005 9:56:22 AM PDT by bondserv (Alignment is critical! †)
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