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To: GourmetDan
One problem that I've never seen answered is how scientists explain away the 5' to 3' problem of joining 2 chromosomes head-to-head?

What are you talking about, joining head-to-head? You are aware that chromosomes have two strands of DNA, right? Like this:

5'--------------3'
3'--------------5'
I think that what you are suggesting is that this happened:

5'--------------3'3'----------------5'
3'--------------5'5'----------------3'
Instead of the proper:

5'--------------3'5'----------------3'
3'--------------5'3'----------------5'
If that is what you are suggesting happened, I am curious as to why you think that. It wont happen that way. Why do you think that the first chromosome wouldn't just twist a very little so it would match up and fuse? That is exactly how they form chiasmata.

758 posted on 09/14/2006 7:16:22 PM PDT by wyattearp (Study! Study! Study! Or BONK, BONK, on the head!)
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To: wyattearp

Here's your link.

The hypothesis is that human chromosome 2 is a fusion of 2 primate chromosomes joined head-to-head.

The 5' to 3' structure makes this impossible, yet the problem is glossed over in favor of 'banding pattern' similarities (which mean nothing).

http://www.evolutionpages.com/chromosome_2.htm

If you twist the chromosome, you join the anti-sense strand to the sense strand and the anti-sense strand does not code.


870 posted on 09/15/2006 5:52:35 AM PDT by GourmetDan
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