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Leads me to wonder if the current "garbage" sequences in our own DNA could be encoded information that we were meant to decode - and by that I mean that that in
by dontblink 14y ago
Leads me to wonder if the current "garbage" sequences in our own DNA could be encoded information that we were meant to decode - and by that I mean that that information may not just be entirely genetic code.
- xanadohnt 14y agoThat's some seriously astute extrapolation! Nice idea, friend.
- will_work4tears 14y agoIt's the memories of all of our ancestors. I must not fear, fear is the mind killer...
- UnFleshedOne 14y agoThey are not garbage sequences iirc, they control gene expression. DNA is a string that is coiled tight several times over itself (can't explain better than that, see the video below :)). So the garbage sequence is like padding that pushes genes in and out of areas that can be read. Changing amount or composition(?) of the garbage can turn a gene on or off just because it becomes inaccessible to RNA replication mechanism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5JnYZImJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5JnYZImJA