Neither I nor the paper I cited use the phrase "Junk DNA". > The non-coding genome is a large part of what causes us to look different from a mouse or a fruit-

Neither I nor the paper I cited use the phrase "Junk DNA". > The non-coding genome is a large part of what causes us to look different from a mouse or a fruit-fly. Now that's just fantasy. There have been a lot of changes since our common ancestors with mice and fruit flies. We are all animals and obviously would share genes that perform analogous functions -- like common genes for controlling wing shapes and organ shapes. But would you like to point me to evidence in the human DNA that codes for fruit fly wings? And what role do you think having virus DNA in our genome plays in our development? DNA encodes information. Information theory does play a role. But as mannykannot pointed out, the topic of the conversation is something else.