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Inheritance Is More Than Gene Deep
Science ^ | April 12, 2006 | Michael Balter

Posted on 04/13/2006 9:12:05 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%

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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Mutations were always a change in an existing gene, so the use of the term in this case probably isn't correct. They came up with "insertions" to account for the acquisition of viral genes.

None of that, however, addressed the question of why Birds and Primates have color vision.

This deal here may be on the track to figure that one out without a lot of parallel evolution BS.

21 posted on 04/13/2006 11:29:30 AM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: 3AngelaD
No ~ Lysenko was not correct ~ besides, he didn't have a clue this stuff was happening.

You will shortly discover we have some Freepers who haven't yet heard of insertions (for example).

22 posted on 04/13/2006 11:31:22 AM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: Elpasser
Don't be ridiculous. It came from Outer Space buried deep within the rock from a long destroyed planet(oid) in a galaxy far away, and possibly even in a different universe.

Life is a marvelous machine with far more complexity than we can imagine.

23 posted on 04/13/2006 11:33:10 AM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: 3AngelaD
Does this mean that Lysenko was right, after all?

Hope not. It could drive this thread off in another direction entirely.

24 posted on 04/13/2006 12:39:32 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: pabianice

Right after it was discovered that mammals don't produce stem cells in their brains?


25 posted on 04/13/2006 12:40:20 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: King Prout
Plan Nine was underfunded by the last Budget. Plan 8.02.45 is available, but it lacks the neato whiz-bang special effects.

LOL!

And it deosn't have an easy to use graphical interface.

26 posted on 04/13/2006 12:41:36 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

yes. it is DOS-based. sorry.


27 posted on 04/13/2006 12:42:57 PM PDT by King Prout (The UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT.)
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To: muawiyah
None of that, however, addressed the question of why Birds and Primates have color vision.

So we can watch TV together, silly. ;)

28 posted on 04/13/2006 12:53:36 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

My daughter works in genetics. As an undergraduate she got to work with a geneticist who was cloning fungi. His experiment was to clone a specific set of cells and produce genetically identical offspring wherein there was a dominance difference in the traits expressed. The genotype was identical and the phenotype varied. The experiment worked so it seems reasonable that there could be many explanations for the apparent differences among genetically identical offspring


29 posted on 04/13/2006 2:27:46 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: Elpasser
And to think it all evolved randomly and purposelessly from nothingness.

Wow!! Still embracing Lucretius' 1st Century B.C. Atomism? (And a superficial version even of that.) You're even more backward than the creationists!

30 posted on 04/13/2006 4:33:04 PM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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Mottled iguanas placemark


31 posted on 04/14/2006 4:59:27 AM PDT by dread78645 (Evolution. A dying theory since 1859.)
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To: muir_redwoods

Excellent!

There will still be a view Americans working in "omics".


32 posted on 04/14/2006 7:56:49 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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