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To: The Great Satan
This makes it harder for the mutations needed for evolution to be true to succeed.

Completely untrue. Gene silencing by the RNAi pathway would have no effect on the vast majority of mutations. The pathway is effective against exogenous double-stranded RNA, such as is produced in the life cycles of some viruses, and perhaps against the self-complementary inverted repeat sequences found in the transcripts of retroviruses and retroposons.

You say that it is not true that it prevents some mutations and yet you give examples of some mutations which it prevents! So regardless of the semantics of the matter it is part of the array of methods which an organism has to prevent mutations. It should be noted also that both viruses and cancers often work by inducing hyper-replication of cells and this directly fights this problem.

20 posted on 08/10/2002 9:39:57 PM PDT by gore3000
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To: gore3000
The problem is, you don't know anything about biology or genetics. You don't even understand the basic concepts. I can't explain it to you unless you educate yourself in basic concepts -- and what are the chances of that happening? You don't even understand the difference between a point mutation and a retroelement and what the significance of that difference is in the context of adaptation, for example. Go back to reading your Bible. You are in way over your head.
22 posted on 08/10/2002 9:47:37 PM PDT by The Great Satan
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