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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washington.edu ...


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KEYWORDS: dna; genetics
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To: aimhigh

My first thought. This astonishing complexity points to a Creator.


21 posted on 12/13/2013 9:19:20 AM PST by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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To: aimhigh

Anyone who thinks all this complex interaction just happened to fall into place through evolution,chooses to believe a delusion.


22 posted on 12/13/2013 9:20:04 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: aimhigh

But how does global warming cause a problem?


23 posted on 12/13/2013 9:21:14 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: Albion Wilde

That’s the first time you ever heard that joke?


24 posted on 12/13/2013 9:23:02 AM PST by DManA
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To: 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.

Because they missed this hidden code, right about now all of Monsanto's genetically modified wheat is manifesting a secondary mutation:


25 posted on 12/13/2013 9:24:33 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Alex Murphy

Triffids would certainly make life more interesting... :-)


26 posted on 12/13/2013 9:25:32 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: aimhigh
The genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons.

God apparently went with 64-bit addressability. Good future-proofing.

27 posted on 12/13/2013 9:26:20 AM PST by Flick Lives (If you like your freedom, you can keep your freedom.)
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To: DManA
Who is "they"?

'they' would be the scientist who gave credit to evolution in the article.

28 posted on 12/13/2013 9:26:54 AM PST by aimhigh
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To: Boogieman

“A code implies the existence of a coder.” Absolutely. DNA is just a medium used to transmit conplex genetic information. Just like pen and paper is a medium used to transmit complex written information. The complex information never just creates itself by random chance. Ever. Just like you can pour a box of Alpha-bits cereal on the floor for infinity and you will never get the Gettysburg Address spelled out.


29 posted on 12/13/2013 9:27:06 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Marcella

live = life


30 posted on 12/13/2013 9:27:10 AM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: aimhigh

When the Creator chose to reveal Himself most explicitly (The same Creator Who said, “Let Us make Man in our own image), He appeared as . . . The Son of Man! “He who has seen Me has seen the Father.” And we all know how well He was received in our midst. Yet to those who believe on His name He gives the right to be His children. These will be raised from the dead, for through faith they are joined to Him; all of them who believed from the beginning.

The world may dismiss genetic code as arbitrary ascriptions produced by the fertile imagination of an evolved creature, but it’s work is ultimately in service to the Creator and those in His service.


31 posted on 12/13/2013 9:27:54 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Moonman62
By the way they are discovering the way creation works, they are glorifying the creator. Your accusation is childish.

Your post is childish. In the article, they give credit to evolution.

32 posted on 12/13/2013 9:28:29 AM PST by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh

Find later


33 posted on 12/13/2013 9:28:37 AM PST by Darnright (To reach something good, it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.)
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To: aimhigh

Genesis has God speaking life into existence.

Science has life being “spoken” into existence by DNA codes.

Amazing how those early Hebrew sheep and goat herders got so much right.


34 posted on 12/13/2013 9:30:45 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: aimhigh

So does this put another nail in the coffin to the notion that apes and humans have “nearly” matching DNA?


35 posted on 12/13/2013 9:32:14 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: DManA

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

There are quite a few Freepers who believe “scientists” is synonymous with “athiests”.


36 posted on 12/13/2013 9:32:30 AM PST by EEGator
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To: aimhigh

Imagine what will be discovered when the known holes for genetic disorders are lined up under this new language.


37 posted on 12/13/2013 9:33:27 AM PST by Crazieman (Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)
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To: Flick Lives

I guess God called base64Encode().


38 posted on 12/13/2013 9:33:57 AM PST by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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To: aimhigh

I view the theory of evolution as one possible explanation of how HE did it.


39 posted on 12/13/2013 9:36:02 AM PST by DManA
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To: EEGator
There are quite a few Freepers who believe “scientists” is synonymous with “athiests”.

I normally don't. But when the scientists give the credit to evolution (as the scientists did in this article), then the charge fits.

40 posted on 12/13/2013 9:36:58 AM PST by aimhigh
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