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>the onus is on you to show that it was somehow important What? Like ... not at all? Onus does not get assigned "by default" due the nature of things, lol. The
by moralestapia 2y ago
>the onus is on you to show that it was somehow important
What? Like ... not at all? Onus does not get assigned "by default" due the nature of things, lol. The onus falls on whoever comes up to propose an hypothesis.
In this case that hypothesis is "all other DNA/RNA is junk", well, then "prove that thing is true", which is unfeasible and hence why one could not assert such thing.
- searine 2y ago>In this case that hypothesis is "all other DNA/RNA is junk", Strawman. It is not as black and white as you think it is. Some non-coding DNA/RNA is functional. Some is not. Selection/conservation is often used as quick way to tell whether something is functional or not. Nobody actually in the field of genetics would say "all other DNA/RNA is junk". You'd get laughed out of the room, kind of in the same way if you said "all non-coding DNA is functional because 'epigenetics' ".