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You might think the Human genome is rather large compared to other animals and insects, but a grasshopper has a genome 3 times the size of the human genome and deep sea shrimp has 10 times as much DNA as us - and salamanders have even bigger DNA and the king of genomes is the Marble Lungfish - which reminds me, I'm having grouper for dinner. So, about the genome, what is it all for? Well, there is all kinds of evidence to suggest that animals are optimizing the size of their cells whereas parasites often minimize the amount of junk in their genome. The reason I'm mentioning any of this is because Dr. Mike mentioned the good ole mitriochonria which is a term most of you have heard but not as much is known about it except why would we need two sets of DNA. The mitriochonria resides in the cells separate from the other DNA and is passed along by mothers so we can trace the maternal line using it, although that is not what it's real purpose - so what is it really for Dr. Mike? Well, some think it is some old bacteria and what we are seeing really is the DNA for a bacteria in the organelles in our cells (every one of them). But, what is it for? Dr. Mike, why don't you complete the sentence, "Mitriochonria is important because....." Hank |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| pnews-news - (NEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsub" in subject to pnews-news-request(at)inyourface.info pnews-views - (VIEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" as subject to pnews-views-request(at)inyourface.info |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Everything begins at The Worm Hole: http://pnews.org/ ----- Something Really Nice for your Honey - http://blackhillsg0ld.com/ Something Really Sexy for Her for Holloween: http://tinyurl.com/q878y --------------------------------------------- NEVER pay for a podcast again: Check it out - http://tinyurl.com/mnr7r -----
