How To Use Junk dna In A Sentence
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To me however, the most interesting components of junk DNA are the mobile genetic elements, also called jumping genes or transposons.
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I'm more interested in epigenetics, but down the road, maybe junk DNA will become more relevant for my biological forays.
A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers
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The general consensus is that the majority of the non-coding, non-regulatory DNA is functionless (the so called ‘junk DNA’).
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A study in the current issue of Science demonstrates for the first time that social behavior may be shaped by differences in the length of seemingly non-functional DNA, sometimes referred to as junk DNA.
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This particular junk DNA indicates a common ancestry with other species on earth, so it is particularly interesting.
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They seem to have waterred down that prediction some, recently, still from memory, I think that Casey Lusking just “predicted” that *some* junk DNA will be found to have a function.
Two analyses of Meyer's "Signature in the Cell" - The Panda's Thumb
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A professor in Australia wants to study junk DNA sequences to see if they may be descrambled to contain communications from extraterrestrial intelligences.
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Usually, that's it, and that copy becomes a so-called pseudogene, functionless litter, part of the famous junk DNA.
Pharyngula
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(a) Vertebrate research; identify PC with excessive fractality, requiring excessive recursion (and thus, “junk DNA”).
Another unintelligent move - The Panda's Thumb
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A professor wants to study junk DNA sequences to see if they may be descrambled to contain communications from extraterrestrial intelligences.
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3 Several “junk DNA” features are shared with Chimpanzees and other primates, such as retroviral transposons inserted into specific genes.
Another unintelligent move - The Panda's Thumb
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In monkeys, the team discovered a piece of what could be "junk DNA" wedged in at the start of the gene.
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Given the role that sexual reproduction already plays in evolvability, it is tempting to speculate that Tetrahymena are telling us that "junk DNA" serves a very useful role, but it is a role that is restricted to reproduction and evolution.
Another Protozoan and Front-Loading
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Two recurring examples are: a) it might lead us to think that junk DNA has some important function after all and b) it might similarly lead us to look for the function of so called vestigial organs.15
Still awaiting the evidence - The Panda's Thumb
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most of the genome consists of junk DNA
