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To: allmendream
You are misinformed, which is all too typical from Creationist sources. They know that the average education level of their target audience is below average - and they tailor the message thusly. Endogenous retroviral sequences are “junk” DNA. Pseudogenes are “junk” DNA. Short repeat sequences are “junk” DNA.

No. DNA information consists of recursive computer-like functions that build structural proteins and nucleic acids. The so-called non-coding or "junk" DNA components actually interact with proteins as they are constructed.

http://junkdna.com/pellionisz_principle

58 posted on 11/29/2011 2:02:50 PM PST by mas cerveza por favor
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To: mas cerveza por favor
So why then are all mutations that cause defects and/or disease found either in genetic DNA (roughly 3% of the genome and highly conserved between species) or the regulatory DNA (roughly 3% of the genome and highly conserved between species) that controls the expression of the genetic DNA?

Why is the most commonly recognized sequence in the human genome a degraded copy of reverse transcriptase?

64 posted on 11/29/2011 2:20:47 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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