"Junk" DNA must have a purpose, otherwise selection would have gotten rid of much of it. Why keep it around to serve as source of problems?
@JayMan471 @hbdchick I'm not understanding. Doesn't the existence of (massive quantities of) junk DNA already answer this question? ...
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@Outsideness@hbdchick Presuming it is junk. You don't need a massive junk cleansing, just some of it to slowly disappear. -
@JayMan471@hbdchick But the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't disappearing, rather the opposite. So a good theory explains that. - 4 more replies
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@JayMan471@hbdchick ... Any model that led us to expect efficient junk-cleansing in the genome would be demonstrably unreliable.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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