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To: biblewonk
So, do you believe that mouse DNA contains enough info to make a man?

Yes, just about: 3.1 billion base pairs for humans vs. 2.7 billion base pairs for mice. Most of that is identical between the two genomes.

I think there are 3 billion polypeptides in human DNA so that would seem like a lot more than needed to make a mouse.

As you say, but the microbe Amoeba dubia has a genome that's 670 billion base pairs long, some 200 times what we have at our disposal. Who's to say what's needed?

985 posted on 06/18/2002 12:58:02 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
As you say, but the microbe Amoeba dubia has a genome that's 670 billion base pairs long, some 200 times what we have at our disposal. Who's to say what's needed?

I don't understand your statement? Do you think that an amoeba is 200 times more complex than a man? If your 670 billion is correct then that sure implies that a lot is not used in the amoeba. In either I would hope that we agree that the order of complexity is amoeba, mouse, man though some of the processes are probably pretty similar within the mouse and the man.

993 posted on 06/18/2002 1:09:20 PM PDT by biblewonk
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