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To: Reeses

You already made a false statement about humans having more subsystems.

My question, however, is not about complexity at the genetic level. How would you measure complexity of an unknown organism if all you had was the genome?


111 posted on 07/18/2006 12:14:37 PM PDT by js1138 (Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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To: js1138
How would you measure complexity of an unknown organism if all you had was the genome?

Using current technology we couldn't. For now we still have to express the DNA into a living thing to observe what genetics are functional. Just measuring the amount and variability of the DNA strands isn't useful for determining genetic complexity.

119 posted on 07/18/2006 12:23:39 PM PDT by Reeses
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