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But junk is perjorative word which suggests that it is entirely disposable even desirable to remove. That may turn out to be true but the experiment required to

But junk is perjorative word which suggests that it is entirely disposable even desirable to remove. That may turn out to be true but the experiment required to prove that thesis would require closely observing a biological systems evolution and disease evolution for some length of time, with "junk" DNA somehow removed and repressed. It may turn out to be a sort of filler with certain characteristics that work out to have repercussions for longer term genetic dynamics, and it may not. Since we cant tell yet, the name for it is very presumptive.

reallydude 7y ago
> But junk is perjorative word which suggests that it is entirely disposable even desirable to remove That's subjective. > It may turn out to be a sort of filler Yes, that's understood and recognized in every analysis. > the name for it is very presumptive. Naming is hard. The lowest common denominator (least amount of thought/simplest concept) will almost always persist. It's not like someone is wringing their hands in the background imagining they have fooled the scientific community.