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To: Physicist
...and there is no correlation between the complexity of organisms and the complexity of their genomes.

And there is no correlation (at least not a linear one--we just don't know yet) between number of genes and organismal complexity.

1,006 posted on 06/18/2002 1:40:00 PM PDT by Nebullis
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To: Nebullis
And there is no correlation (at least not a linear one--we just don't know yet) between number of genes and organismal complexity.

In fact the opposite seems to be true. Organisms with the fewer genes (up to a point) are the more advanced. What seems to show greater advance and greater complexity is not the number of genes or the size of the genome, but the amount of non-coding DNA in the genome. In fact, mammals have the most non-coding DNA of any species. The higher species achieve complexity through intricate programming designed to reuse genes for the manufacture of different proteins.

1,154 posted on 06/18/2002 10:34:04 PM PDT by gore3000
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