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Scientists discover double meaning in genetic code
University of Washington ^ | 12/12/2013 | University of Washington

Posted on 12/13/2013 8:59:54 AM PST by aimhigh

Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. This second code contains information that changes how scientists read the instructions contained in DNA and interpret mutations to make sense of health and disease.

UW scientists were stunned to discover that genomes use the genetic code to write two separate languages. One describes how proteins are made, and the other instructs the cell on how genes are controlled. One language is written on top of the other, which is why the second language remained hidden for so long.

The genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. The UW team discovered that some codons, which they called duons, can have two meanings, one related to protein sequence, and one related to gene control.

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KEYWORDS: dna; genetics
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The complexity of DNA expands exponentially, yet they fail to glorify the creator. I expect they will find even more overlapping codes in DNA.
1 posted on 12/13/2013 8:59:54 AM PST by aimhigh
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These guys ought to mine Bitcoins on the side, and celebrate.


2 posted on 12/13/2013 9:02:25 AM PST by cicero2k
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To: aimhigh

Yup...and to them this all happened by “accident.”

Yeah, unbelievable how they deny it when it’s in their faces.


3 posted on 12/13/2013 9:03:05 AM PST by Thorliveshere (Minnesota Survivor)
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To: aimhigh

The complexity of life proves a creator, to deny the existence of one is simply foolish.
I’m not a born again on fire Christian, but I have no problem believing, us and everything else was made by a supreme creator.


4 posted on 12/13/2013 9:05:15 AM PST by Farnsworth (Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
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To: aimhigh

So all those ‘scientists’ claiming they understood DNA and genetics. That their version of evolution, GMO and a myriad of other issues were just plain wrong?


5 posted on 12/13/2013 9:05:40 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: aimhigh

A code implies the existence of a coder.


6 posted on 12/13/2013 9:06:43 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: aimhigh
Who is "they"?

yet they fail to glorify the creator.

7 posted on 12/13/2013 9:06:53 AM PST by DManA
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To: Farnsworth

The more we know, the more we know we don’t know.

It’s kinda funny, It’s easy to get people to believe in evolution when the don’t really understand biology’s complexities. It’s when you get into how it really works that the whole concept really breaks down.


8 posted on 12/13/2013 9:08:09 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: Thorliveshere

I hope the condons don’t break!


9 posted on 12/13/2013 9:08:46 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: aimhigh

It’s all just random gobbledygoook, right? No order or intelligent design readily apparent to even an idiot. Spiders weave symmetrical webs with a specific design, birds build nests and miraculously fly outh in the Winter, right Mr. Logical Scientist?

And yet the idiots still will not admit there is a Creator. This stuff didn’t happen by accident and the Creator was not an alien Prometheus type race because it would still beg the question, “where did they come from?”


10 posted on 12/13/2013 9:10:15 AM PST by jsanders2001
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A man married to one of my family members, does not believe in God and always wants to discuss with me why I believe there is a God. In the last discussion we had, I asked him how live came to be. He said there was bit of material and this happened and this happened, etc.. So, I asked him where that first “bit” of life came from. He said, “I don’t know.” I said, “I rest my case.” He couldn’t think of anything to refute what I said so he didn’t.

My husband used to try to get me to believe that we came from apes. I told him I agreed HE did come from apes as his behavior was sometimes like theirs, gross, but “I” didn’t come from apes, that God fashioned me. He would always laugh at that.


11 posted on 12/13/2013 9:11:56 AM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: driftdiver

There would be no new discoveries if scientists thought they understood it all.


12 posted on 12/13/2013 9:12:33 AM PST by DManA
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The complexity of DNA expands exponentially, yet they fail to glorify the creator.

By the way they are discovering the way creation works, they are glorifying the creator. Your accusation is childish.

13 posted on 12/13/2013 9:12:58 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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Well played sir, well played.


14 posted on 12/13/2013 9:13:31 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: DManA

Well they sure seem to think they know it all when it comes to pushing their agenda.


15 posted on 12/13/2013 9:13:33 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Scientists discover double meaning in genetic code

So, how do you differentiate the male and female DNA? You pull down its genes.

16 posted on 12/13/2013 9:16:02 AM PST by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: aimhigh

One language for the unsaved; the other for the saved.


17 posted on 12/13/2013 9:17:25 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: aimhigh

If you have an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters they will make an infinite mess.


18 posted on 12/13/2013 9:18:45 AM PST by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: driftdiver

There’s that “they” again.

God reveals Himself through His Word and through His Creation. Science shows us what would otherwise be hidden.

Where does this attitude of treating science like the enemy of God come from?


19 posted on 12/13/2013 9:19:03 AM PST by DManA
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My husband used to try to get me to believe that we came from apes. I told him I agreed HE did come from apes...

LOL!!

20 posted on 12/13/2013 9:19:12 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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