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Sorry, but it was obvious to me for years. DNA is a program. Programs contain data and code. They also contain all sorts of control sections. This stuff is the
by guard-of-terra 14y ago
Sorry, but it was obvious to me for years.
DNA is a program. Programs contain data and code. They also contain all sorts of control sections. This stuff is there for a reason and we should think by default that genetic code will have those too.
(For those who think DNA is not a program because it is environment and state dependent - sorry, computer programs are very adaptable beasts too)
Another frequent misunderstanding - any running program looks like it has most of its code never used. This is false, because code falls under 90%/10% law. 90% of code is needed 10% of time. The time for those "dead" genes will come more often than not, and they will fire.