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Re:The Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’ by taneq on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:01PM (#28383434)
Sounds like "non-functional DNA" might in fact have a function, hm?
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Re:The Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’ by dekhn on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:09PM (#28383526)
Probably not in the context of the example I gave; that's more likely to just be a totally random genome duplication which will eventually be functionally selected away.
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Re:The Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’ by thaumasiotes on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:33PM (#28383861)
Non-functional DNA is to all DNA as source code that doesn't call I/O is to all source code.
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