Comments on: “Junk” DNA not really junk https://habitablezone.com/2012/09/09/junk-dna-not-really-junk/ Tue, 12 May 2026 20:11:45 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2012/09/09/junk-dna-not-really-junk/#comment-18116 Jody Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:11:41 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=21606#comment-18116 ...and telomeres...<a href="http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/traits/telomeres/" rel="nofollow">Just love this stuff</a> …and telomeres…Just love this stuff

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2012/09/09/junk-dna-not-really-junk/#comment-18115 Jody Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:08:44 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=21606#comment-18115 Tandem repeats...<a href="http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/tandem-repeats-and-morphological-variation-40690" rel="nofollow">I have been fascinated with this...</a> Tandem repeats…I have been fascinated with this…

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/09/09/junk-dna-not-really-junk/#comment-18107 bowser Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:21:30 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=21606#comment-18107 Of course that hasn't been "junk", it's simply chauvanistic arrogance which doesn't understand it that calls it "junk". Remember when the appendix was considered vestigial, simply a holdover, a waste? Turns out to be what "reseeds" the digestive system after a severe bout of dysentery. Nature is smarter than some of it's creatures. Of course that hasn’t been “junk”, it’s simply chauvanistic arrogance which doesn’t understand it that calls it “junk”.

Remember when the appendix was considered vestigial, simply a holdover, a waste? Turns out to be what “reseeds” the digestive system after a severe bout of dysentery.

Nature is smarter than some of it’s creatures.

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