Junk DNA: goodbye! (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 09:24 (3564 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Another paper finding function in repeated segments:-http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=143443&CultureCode=en-Below is the section that really interests me:-QUOTE: The two slopes of the canyon are about two football fields apart at their bases — between 100 meters and 400 meters — but the south-facing slope is tropical and may receive eight times as much sun, while the north-facing slope is darker, more like a European forest.
Animals genetically adapt depending on whether they live on the drier, hotter side of the canyon, or the more humid, cooler side.
Researchers extracted DNA from flies collected in the canyon, then identified and mapped repeating patterns of what genomics researchers call “transposable elements” — DNA sequences capable of spontaneously changing position within the genome.
The scientists discovered flies taken from the opposing sides of the canyon displayed a significant difference in the contents and distribution of mobile elements.
The biological roles of these place-jumping, repetitive elements are mysterious. 
They are largely viewed as “genomic parasites,” but in this study, researchers found the mobile DNA can provide genetic novelties recruited as certain population-unique, functional enrichments that are nonrandom and purposeful.-This would seem to be yet another example of the way in which cell communities intelligently adapt and innovate in accordance with their environment. Of course you insist that such changes are preprogrammed by your God, because according to you these communities behave automatically. It is truly amazing how many programmes he must have packed into those first few living cells to be passed down to all succeeding species over the next few billion years, especially when apparently all he really wanted to do was create human beings!