7 Sep
2012
7 Sep
'12
10:53 a.m.
I must have missed something (a lot of somethings?) on this blog. I couldn't find much detail on it at all. All he seems to say is that at least 80% of the DNA is functional, and probably 100%. I agree with this assessment. Is there more detail somewhere else? Perhaps you have a better link? At 03:13 AM 9/7/2012, Jeffrey Shallit wrote:
There have been a lot of claims about junk DNA in this thread that are simply wrong.
Rather than enumerate them, I'll just direct you to the blog of Toronto biologist Larry Moran, who has a number of posts about junk DNA, as well as a number of posts illustrating why the latest news has been oversold.