Posted on 10/17/2007 11:08:26 PM PDT by neverdem
In his 2000 State of the Union Address, President Bill Clinton chose to emphasize something he had recently heard from a genome researcher: that humans are all, irrespective of race, 99.9% the same genetically. “Modern science,” he told his country's legislators, “has confirmed what ancient faiths have always taught: the most important fact of life is our common humanity.” Seven years on, and four years after the final publication of the sequences from the Human Genome Project, new technologies and larger data sets are allowing genome biologists to answer a conundrum embodied in that unity-inspiring percentage: if our DNA is so similar, why do we seem different in so many ways?
The answer, in part, is that the genome is not as uniform as Clinton was led to believe; nor is it nearly as sedate, stable and homogeneous as scientists used to think. It's less a 'Book of Life', more a wiki; many of its ho-hum elements don't change, but some really interesting bits are constantly revised.
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Why is Clinton even in this? The only thing Clinton and DNA have in common is that stupid dress. Please don’t tell me that’s where the got their samples from.
Because of the ill-informed comments he made that sounded so wise at the time. He was the supreme BS artist talking about a subject in which most folks don't have a clue. Good students are honest to admit that we don't know what we don't know.The more that genetics is studied, the more that we learn about what we didn't know.
Yep, if Bill’s lips were moving, he was lying, women were swooning, and men were thinking, “Not this s—t again!”
It’s that 0.5% difference (or whatever they find it is) that makes me different from Bill Clinton. Vive la difference! Thank you, Lord.
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