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Any source on that bit about junk DNA? I just completed a reasonably advanced course on computational biology and I was still taught that although we have foun
by kissickas 13y ago
Any source on that bit about junk DNA?
I just completed a reasonably advanced course on computational biology and I was still taught that although we have found noncoding DNA performing functions, the majority of our DNA is both noncoding and not used for anything (i.e. evolutionarily obsolete, transposons, etc).
- refurb 13y agoHuh. I haven't heard that take on "junk DNA" in a long time. http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Noncoding_DNA.html http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Noncodi...
- jonathansizz 13y agoYou are correct. Most non-coding DNA is junk, which amounts to around 90% of the genome. Dead transposons alone make up just under half of the human genome.
- ConceptJunkie 13y agoYou know, if we really wanted to be sure about that, we could just check the commit comments.
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