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To: allmendream

==So now you are only wrong about the genome, while the data is not yet in on the epigenome.

No I will not. I will admit that their linear DNA is more similar, but I will not conceded that their genomes (even without the epigenome) are more similar because each code segment of the untranslated regions, which comprise 97% of the code, can have five, seven or more functions. That means that identical (linear) segments can have a set of functions for one species that are quite different from the functions these segments carry out in another species. But of course, if I need the epigenome to show chimps are closer to other great apes than to humans, I always have that to draw upon too (but I doubt I will need it). In the end, chimps are closer to other great apes than to humans both in terms of body plan and functional needs. This should be evident in whatever machinery makes chimps, chimps and humans, humans. I say the evidence for these STRIKING differences will be found in the untranslated regions and the epigenome. And I have little doubt that my prediction will be vindicated by further research.


178 posted on 02/11/2009 2:07:31 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts
All DNA is linear.

The Genome is all DNA.

If you are talking about spliced transcripts those are RNA.

DNA is not RNA.

So now your claim is that in untranslated RNA segments spliced together from the genome..... THOSE will be more similar between chimps and gorillas than between chimps and humans?

LOL!!! Talk about moving goal posts, now we are not even talking about DNA but spliced together RNA transcripts.

Either way, when talking about DNA (and all DNA is linear) humans and chimps are more similar to each other than either is to a gorilla.

You deny it at the expense of your negligible credibility.

179 posted on 02/11/2009 2:56:47 PM PST by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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