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To: VadeRetro
Is the enlargement of the genome supposedly the barrier?

No. You have not been reading my statements. There are many problems with the creation of new genes and creation of additional "space" is a very small part. What is essential is:

1. finding the correct size of the gene for the faculty which needs to be developed.
2. finding the correct way in which the new gene will interface with the thousands of other genes and trillions of other cells in the body.
3. getting the other thousands of genes and trillions of cells in the body to interface properly with the new gene.
4. achieving a series of random mutations on the genetic material of the correct length and with the correct amino acids.
5. achieving a long series of mutations, a large proportion of which will be deadly to the organism without destroying the "gene under construction".
6. even after this fantastic gene is developed, it needs to be spread over a large population with each reproduction cutting the chances of its spreading in half until a large amount of the population has acquired at least one copy of it.
7. for the above to have happened over 20,000 times in man and its ancestors and a similar amount of times in the millions of diferent species, genus, orders, and phylums of known dead and alive species which have populated the earth.

1,224 posted on 03/21/2002 8:45:37 PM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
1. finding the correct size of the gene for the faculty which needs to be developed.

. . .

7. for the above to have happened over 20,000 times in man and its ancestors and a similar amount of times in the millions of diferent species, genus, orders, and phylums of known dead and alive species which have populated the earth.

What is the correct size of a gene? Are you sure there's no slop factor in coding for a protein? What if there's more than one way to get it right? What if there's more than one "right" protein?
1,299 posted on 03/22/2002 8:02:00 AM PST by VadeRetro
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