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Junk is an appropriate easy-access word. Would you be happier if geneticists told you junk DNA was mainly highly repetitive mobile element DNA derived originall
by robwwilliams 5y ago
Junk is an appropriate easy-access word. Would you be happier if geneticists told you junk DNA was mainly highly repetitive mobile element DNA derived originally from exogenous viruses? In general this junk does not make proteins and its expression as RNA is often actively suppressed.
The human genome is littered with cruft and dumb code comments just like you would expect for very very old code.