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Breakthrough study overturns theory of 'junk DNA' in genome
The Guardian ^ | Alok Jha

Posted on 12/15/2013 5:16:23 PM PST by Dark Knight

Long stretches of DNA previously dismissed as "junk" are in fact crucial to the way our genome works, an international team of researchers said on Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: genome; junkdna; ntsa
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To: Dark Knight
"Long stretches of DNA previously dismissed as 'junk'"

Nature usually doesn't have time for "junk" - that would consume energy, which generally cannot be wasted on something that doesn't serve a purpose.
21 posted on 12/15/2013 8:06:52 PM PST by indthkr
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To: James C. Bennett

Of course males can suckle young, including the production of milk, but it is a rare occurrence, involving unusual conditions.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-males-can-lactate

LOL

DK


22 posted on 12/15/2013 8:22:18 PM PST by Dark Knight
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To: Dark Knight

Rare, random, chance occurrence. Like a mutation, perhaps?

*Chuckle!*


23 posted on 12/15/2013 8:24:51 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: James C. Bennett

Rare, not random according to the article. The hormone involvement is rare, but pretty well described.

I would guess that suppression of testosterone is probably significant, so I believe old men in certain outback areas of Australia did this tribally. But their diet was awful.

DK


24 posted on 12/15/2013 8:28:15 PM PST by Dark Knight
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To: Dark Knight

If the discovery of DNA wasn’t enough to make the evolutionists go away, this has to at some point when full understanding of the check-sum protections in the so-called junk comes to light.


25 posted on 12/15/2013 8:32:20 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Dark Knight

Let me know when you can make use of your male nipples to lactate without the intervention of modern science, as a test of its survival benefit.

Until then, the male nipple is a useless by-product that escaped natural elimination by the lack of selection against it.


26 posted on 12/15/2013 8:33:44 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: discostu

>> “Luckily nobody involved in evolution science thinks it’s random” <<

You’re the only person that has that belief.

The evos here demand that all is random.


27 posted on 12/15/2013 8:35:07 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: James C. Bennett

Are there any features of the female body that you deem to serve no purpose?


28 posted on 12/15/2013 8:37:09 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: discostu

>> “No. No. And no.” <<

.
You’ve tripped over your own keyboard little boy.

You’ve denied their whole premise of God replacement.


29 posted on 12/15/2013 8:37:55 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: James C. Bennett

>> “The reason why males have nipples is evolutionary” <<

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Knee-slapper of the year!


30 posted on 12/15/2013 8:40:55 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: RegulatorCountry

You tell me.

Fetuses start out as female. Male organs develop out of female base structures.

The “rib” became the male and not the other way round.

:)


31 posted on 12/15/2013 8:43:30 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: James C. Bennett

Fetuses start out with an external “bud” that is neither.

You’re pushing political science, here.


32 posted on 12/15/2013 8:48:36 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: James C. Bennett

Black Heroin?


33 posted on 12/15/2013 8:50:17 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: James C. Bennett
Even in the morula stage of his or her life, the new life can be identified as male or female by genetic / chromosomal marking. Peddle your progressive crap somewhere else.
34 posted on 12/15/2013 8:52:12 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: James C. Bennett

So a counter example that happens regularly (but rarely) in nature is not good enough to falsify your flat denial?

That’s faith...

DK

LOL


35 posted on 12/15/2013 8:55:08 PM PST by Dark Knight
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To: MHGinTN

Suppress the male hormonal spike and fetuses with male chromosomes will develop organs that are found in females.

That’s besides individuals born with chromosome abnormalities like this:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome


36 posted on 12/15/2013 9:33:58 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: Dark Knight

It’s not a counter-example, and in no way indicates design other than as a chance happening. A woman taking male hormones (or abnormally producing excess testosterone due to a tumour, etc.) will have her clitoris enlarge to become more of a penis than a clitoris.


37 posted on 12/15/2013 9:37:55 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: Dark Knight

Thanks for the intelligent reply. I firmly believe that the earth is 4 billion years old. But I don’t believe the theory of evolution by natural selection of random mutations explains the beginning of life or the complexity of life.
You are correct that the fun is just beginning in molecular biology.


38 posted on 12/15/2013 9:57:33 PM PST by Sicvee (Sicvee)
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To: James C. Bennett

I suppose we can argue that a male producing milk for suckling a child, in a situation that is not the result of artificial hormones being introduced is not a counter example...but you would have to be using some form of heretofore undiscovered logic to arrive at that conclusion.

Nipples can function as nipples for suckling babies in either either sex although it is rare in the males of the human species in a natural setting. Not unknown, but rare.

Of course using your logic I assert that you James weigh as much as a duck. (I think in the movie it was a goose, but I am not here to quibble with the king’s logic). I would heartily advise you stop putting false noses on yourself or turning townspeople into Newts...even if they do get better.

I assert also that James has small pebbles so he can float and make the best candidate for producing milk from his nipples. Certainly the best I’ve read on this thread!

Have a great night everyone!

DK


39 posted on 12/15/2013 10:40:47 PM PST by Dark Knight
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To: James C. Bennett

Freak events always happen in life. All the events you mention fall into that category, and the end result put humans in the position where they are today. So it could be argued those events actually helped mankind.

But the Sun is a different story. All life on earth depends upon the Sun never changing. In nature, change is the norm. If there isn’t some force or power keeping the sun from spontaneously and permanently getting a little hotter and burning us to a crisp or getting a little colder and turning the earth into an icecube, we’re frankly screwed.


40 posted on 12/16/2013 5:05:54 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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