Junk DNA: goodbye!: An RNA controls chromosome number (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, December 30, 2015, 20:39 (3030 days ago) @ dhw
edited by David Turell, Wednesday, December 30, 2015, 21:24


> dhw: You're quite right, I should have put it the other way round. Natural selection ensures the survival of what is useful. But if useful material is passed onto subsequent organisms, how does that cast doubt on evolution? (I am not trying to defend the atheist line - I am merely pointing out that both sides can twist any discovery to fit in with their hypotheses.)-You've got it, but, evolution will always pass on useful information in the newly reconstructed DNA. It is generally found that mutations that cause 'advances' actually delete existing information! An initial hailing of junk as 'proof' is now being walked back.-Afterthought: The finding that information is lost when advancing adaptations occur, is part of the reasoning I use to think that DNA was coded for all of evolution from the beginning of life.