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'Junk' DNA Mystery Solved: It's Not Needed
- a_bonobo 13y agoActual paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12132.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu... Ed Yong on the same paper: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/12/flesh-eating-plant-cleaned-junk-minimalist-genome/ http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/12/flesh-eat... I'd be careful in comparing this to the human genome, both organisms are so far away from each other on the evolutionary tree that it doesn't make sense to do any comparison.