By tinkering with this junk DNA, genetics experts have reawakened long suppressed dinosaur-like traits in a modified chicken.
Cheers: Axil On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Nigel Dyer <l...@thedyers.org.uk> wrote: > Genetics experts stopped calling the non-coding regions 'junk' some time > ago. They might say something like 'what used to be called junk DNA'. I > have been wondering whether certain aspects of the information that defines > an organism is not contained in the DNA, but instead certain specific > regions of the DNA are able to 'tune into' information from previous > generations of the organism which have similar sequences. > > Nigel > > > On 28/12/2012 01:38, David Roberson wrote: > >> It is funny when I hear of "junk DNA" as described by the genetics >> experts. Why choose to call something unknown as junk instead of just >> admitting that it is not understood? Reminds me of the old theory about >> the amount of one's brain that is being used. I just wish people would lay >> out the facts that they know and not judge the unknowns. I guess some >> would call LENR junk physics! >> >> >> Dave >> >> >> >
