Fire away. I’m all ears.
Most of this stuff in this article has been known for years. The UTRs he mentioned are called introns. They were discovered over 30 years ago. The people who found them won a Nobel in 1993 or 1994. Where I worked then was lucky enough to had booked one of the winners for a lecture that was scheduled the week after he won. The entire genome is not transcribed. A lot of stuff like that from someone without a firm grasp of the field. The author is a botanist that spent a lot of time doing missionary work, not someone with a molecular biology background.
About the DNA replication, I actually developed a method (about 20 years ago) to map which regions had replication origins and in which directions the DNA replicated. Other labs used my method soon after to show that DNA replication occurred in nonspecific regions in human DNA. Again, what is your background or his in molecular biology???