@Outsideness @hbdchick If it were functionless, it could have been lost with no harm. Indeed, would have been favored (cut down mutations).
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Replying to @JayMan471
@JayMan471@hbdchick Selective pressure on non-expressive DNA is clearly too low to pay for intra-genomic editing machines you're expecting.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Outsideness@hbdchick Deletions of functionless areas likely to have been favored.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@JayMan471@hbdchick 'Likely' meaning what? Junk DNA is the fact, the selective hypothesis the counter-factual, no?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness@hbdchick Ultimately, it does depend on whether the rate junk is lost to deletions exceeds the rate new junk is generated.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@JayMan471@hbdchick I'm not understanding. Doesn't the existence of (massive quantities of) junk DNA already answer this question? ...2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness@hbdchick Presuming it is junk. You don't need a massive junk cleansing, just some of it to slowly disappear.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@JayMan471@hbdchick But the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't disappearing, rather the opposite. So a good theory explains that.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Outsideness@hbdchick Again, presuming it is junk.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @JayMan471
@JayMan471@hbdchick Again, we can see from elementary information theory that most of it is junk. ...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@JayMan471 @hbdchick ... 200 repeats of a four-codon sequence isn't doing any serious informatic work.
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Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness@JayMan471@hbdchick Okay, that's probably junk. But it might also be RNA enzyme. When printed that will have a shape.0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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