Junk DNA: goodbye!: ENCODE now hedging on 80% (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, January 04, 2016, 18:10 (3028 days ago) @ dhw


> DAVID: The size of DNA is a major issue in the discussion. [...]
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> dhw: Thank you for your interesting thoughts on amoeba and prokaryote DNA “junk” as preparation for later developments. I'm not sure how this would account for the “junk” in those later developments, but at the moment I'm more interested in responses to the news. For argument's sake, if it turns out to be say 70/30 or 50/50, how will you interpret the figures in terms of God's grand design? And how do you think an atheist will interpret them?-The term junk was introduced in the 1970's by a Dr. Ohno, as not much seemed functional. More and more is found in varying degrees of functionality. We don't know what the final result will be over the ensuing years.