Posted on 10/06/2003 4:34:06 PM PDT by blam
Scientists vie to break junk DNA's secret code
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
(Filed: 06/10/2003)
Huge tracts of human DNA, previously written off as meaningless junk, have been found to contain a hitherto unrecognised "genetic grammar", making the language of our genes much more complex than previously thought.
The discovery is of potentially huge significance, since it could lead to an entirely new explanation for certain diseases and symptoms. A race is now on among teams of scientists worldwide to investigate this cryptic code.
While the genetic recipe of a human being is spelt out with three billion letters of DNA code, only about two per cent of these correspond to the genes - the DNA that describes the proteins that build and operate bodies.
In the latest issue of the journal Science, Prof Stylianos Antonarakis of the University of Geneva Medical School, Dr Ewen Kirkness of the Institute of Genomic Research, Maryland, and colleagues have reported compelling evidence that up to three per cent of our genetic material has a crucial role that is not understood.
They made the unexpected discovery that some DNA regions of humans, dogs and species as distant as elephant and wallaby are nearly identical. These regions of what were once called junk have been dubbed "conserved non-genic sequences", or CNGs, a reference to how they are not conventional genes.
Prof Antonarakis said: "I suspect that mutations in CNGs may contribute to numerous genetic disorders." Defects in CNGs could result in illness while the symptoms of Down's syndrome, caused by an extra copy of a chromosome, might be linked to the presence of additional CNGs.
"Many laboratories are now working on identifying pathogenic mutations," he said.
And most of it is still junk. The abstract for this paper claims only 0.3 - 1 % of the genome consists of these conserved sequences.
Yup, since post 94, 95 when the evo trolls arrived they have turned this from a discussion of the article to a long string of personal attacks. That's all those Clintonites can do.
'Evolution' is a very broad word in use. Darwinian evolution is certainly atheist since it denies that man was created in God's image. While evos (because it is scientifically impossible) deny that abiogenesis (that God did not create life) has anything to do with evolution, a quick look at TalkOrigins and these threads will show that evos also support a completely materialistic agenda.
Nope. You were disagreeing with me but were discussing the subject, not indulging in personal attacks. The evo thugs have turned this thread into a discussion of posters instead of the subject. This is a typical Clintonite tactic of attacking the messenger when there is no refutation to the message.
It's not only Aric who knows no science and is out to disrupt these threads, Mr. Placemarker and Vade together with him and a few fellow thugs try to turn every thread into a long string of personal attacks. They are the folk who start yelling at a speech so that the speaker cannot be heard, they are the tyrants who punish those who try to tell the truth.
That is the kind of arrogance and uninformed nonsense that evolutionists have been spewing and has been completely refuted by science. Only evos would be so stupid and/or dishonest to claim that 95% of DNA is junk just there so they could prove their stupid theory. Evolution has done more harm to science and consequently killed numerous people with their dishonest arrogance.
Yup, it is all a blood-sport with this crowd. Like the brown shirts they are they seek to destroy anyone who disagrees with them.
I also see that they are completely spamming this thread so that no one coming to it expecting a scientific discussion will see anything worth reading. Pretty disgusting tactics are being allowed in a supposedly FreeRepublic.
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Yup, the above is absolutely true and I have backed it up already many times. The new frontier in biology for the last ten years has been the discovery of how the many different genes and proteins get expressed. All this happens in what the liars of evolution call 'junk DNA'. It also needs to be noted that carrying so much dead weight in our DNA would be totally unfit and thus contradict the very 'engine' of evolution 'fitness'. They cannot refute the truth so they must spam, insult and make wise crack remarks as if their lame opinions constituted any sort of evidence against what has been said by me.
The evo thugs have turned this thread into a discussion of posters instead of the subject. This is a typical Clintonite tactic of attacking the messenger when there is no refutation to the message.If you need to see more of the same, by the same poster, look at post 14, 129, and 186. I respectfully suggest that enough is enough.
328 posted on 10/08/2003 8:59 PM EDT by gore3000It's not only Aric who knows no science and is out to disrupt these threads, Mr. Placemarker and Vade together with him and a few fellow thugs try to turn every thread into a long string of personal attacks. They are the folk who start yelling at a speech so that the speaker cannot be heard, they are the tyrants who punish those who try to tell the truth.
329 posted on 10/08/2003 9:07 PM EDT by gore3000Like the brown shirts they are they seek to destroy anyone who disagrees with them.
331 posted on 10/08/2003 9:36 PM EDT by gore3000
More Christian bashing from the King of Slime.
My God! When he goes after Mom and apple pie, he's gone too far!
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