[Wacka]

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???

[GodGunsGuts]

==The UTRs he mentioned are called introns.

Wow, wrong right out of the box. You are obviously an expert. LOL

[GodGunsGuts]

PS Could it be that you don’t know the difference between transcription and translation? I think I’ll stick with the botanist/missionary.

[Myrddin]

Molecular biology was in its infancy when I was at UCSD from 1974 to 1976. Rick Firtel and Bill Loomis were a couple of my favorite profs in the field. Chris Wills covered the "population biology" courses. Dan Lindsley was my genetics prof. Brown and Helinski were my microbiology profs. I served as a TA for Stanley Miller. It was neat to actually get two work with one of the "famous" names in biology. Revelle was a great (and competitive) environment.