This story is archived

Human genome further unravelled »

Posted by: puiahappy 2 years, 6 months ago

Archived 53 0 drops

A close-up view of the human genome has revealed its innermost workings to be far more complex than first thought. The study, which was carried out on just 1% of our DNA code, challenges the view that genes are the main players in driving our biochemistry.

Read Full Story at news.bbc.co.uk »

Submitted By:

puiahappy

This Story is Archived and Commenting is Closed

Comments: 10

Avg rating: (+4/-0 4)
quackpot
June 14, 2007, 8:20 p.m.
Kind of like the contents of a typical household: 97% "junk". But, are those old vinyl albums from the 1960s really junk?
Avg rating: (+4/-0 4)
Obaku
June 15, 2007, 2:50 a.m.
Except it isn't 'junk' at all.
Like dark matter, it has a function, just not a 'two by four to the head' function.
Avg rating: (+4/-1 3)
GlamourGirl
June 14, 2007, 2:53 p.m.
Fascinating! How indeed little we still known about the world and ourselves, despite all the arrogance of modern science!
Avg rating: (+4/-3 1)
Mutainia
June 14, 2007, 9:44 p.m.
Junk DNA? Or cushioning to protect the organism longer from radioactivity? Oh, it's more complex than originally thought? Well, leave that up to that God-like thunderbolt that struck the primordial soup, miraculously, I mean, acCIDENTALLY, bringing forth something that would reproduce itself in wound-up chromosomnal form. :)
Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)
fcfcfc
June 14, 2007, 10:29 p.m.
Just as the initial parts of the atom, Proton, Nutron and Electron were thought to be the smallest pieces of matter and the "end all" if you wish, so too will the life building blocks prove to be very much more complex than first thought. But really, did you actually think that it would be any other way..??!! 4 billion years can generate a staggering amount of complexity...and then some....
.....Bill
Avg rating: (+5/-0 5)
Mutainia
June 14, 2007, 11:39 p.m.
So, given 4 billion years, in all those lightning strikes, ONE of those lightning strikes, instead of FRYING life, will create a very long strand of information so complex (DNA that contains instructions for an organism to live and reproduce) that even our current technology can't duplicate yet, forcing us to, instead, use what life has already given us to make biological products. So far, it takes life to create life. I don't know about you, but, if you can't believe in "Intelligent Design", you sure in hell can believe in the Twilight Zone.
Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)
Mutainia
June 17, 2007, 1:31 p.m.
Are you saying the there is no intelligence behind music? You MIGHT have some agreeing with you on certain kinds of so-called "music".