Protein production (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Wednesday, April 04, 2012, 20:10 (4617 days ago) @ David Turell

I read through the article, and some of the referenced material, and I have to say I am intrigued. If I understand this correctly, this is an extention of the "junk DNA is not junk" research. If I understand all this correctly, it seems that what we have is segments of DNA that are blueprints, sections that are implentation plans, and some that are post-production plans. Hrmm, when something tells you where to go, how to get there, and what to do once you get there, we normally call that a plan. -Just out of curiosity, I wonder what are percentage of similarity to chimps is after this. It was around 80% before they started including some of the non-coding genes, and the last count I heard was around 60%... wonder if the trend will continue until people can say with some degree of certainty that mutating from a chimp into a human was, if not impossible, excruciatingly highly unlikely.

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