Posted on 07/29/2002 6:35:04 PM PDT by Tribune7
The answer was already given to you:
No they did not. The size of the genome was the same before and after the mutations. Further, as I quoted from your study the mutation was helpful only in the particular circumstance the ebg functioned worse in normal situations so as a matter of survivability, it was less prone to survive than before the mutation. This is nothing new. Breeding does the same thing, it makes the genome of the organism less adaptable, less efficient that is why pure-bred animals are less healthy than their wild counterparts.
BTW - this is similar to the case of the nylon bacteria. Nothing new here.
No they have not because a beneficial mutation by duplication is not immediately beneficial. More of your confusionism. Follow the thread, that is why you never quote the statements I made.
You just asked me this five posts ago.
Just post it here so all can see. Enough excuses, enough 'I won the argument elsewhere' nonsense. Just cut and paste it. Have been asking you for it from over a hundred posts back, you are still making excuses. Cut the nonsense, just post it.
Oh yes, you can find polymers all over in nature. Once the plant closes they will die, as I said.
You don't really know what a polymer is, do you?
Vade, can you comment?
Now one might say that if evolution were hung up on a local Maximum, a large genetic change like a recombination or a transposition could bring it to another higher peak. Large adaptive changes are, however, highly improbable. They are orders of magnitude less probable than getting an adaptive change with a single nucleotide substitution, which is itself improbable. No one has shown this to be possible either.
--Dr. Lee Spetner
No comment about sugar based biopolymers.
Popular "Of Mice And Men" reference, especially in 1940s cartoons.
"Which way did they go, George? Which way did they go?" That's Lenny talking.
Yes, and keratin (which I also listed separately) is a naturally-occurring (fill in the blank) p***mer. Which is also true of the rest of the things on my list. ;)
I remember the cartoons. I never knew where that came from.
Cellulose.
I noticed that in England they talk about trees being made of plastic. Something I've never heard in American English.
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