[tallhappy]

Hi, I missed this earlier.

So if we compare all the small subunit rRNA sequences - several hundred by now - we can't learn anything from them?

Yes. That was my point. We can learn -- and did in fact -- learn a lot by comparison even if there were no evolutionary theory.

It told a great deal about structure and function. Sequence analysis is very simple, yet very powerful. It provides a great deal of info and insight on structure and function.

[Right Wing Professor]

Yes. That was my point. We can learn -- and did in fact -- learn a lot by comparison even if there were no evolutionary theory.

A ribosome's a ribosome. The main information 16S gives you is evolutionary relationships

[timestax]

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