Tag: DNA
What Biologists Can Learn from Engineers, and Vice Versa
If biologists had thought more like engineers, stumbling into the myth of “Junk DNA” might have been avoided.
Dawkins Is Knocked “Sideways with Wonder” by Cell’s Design
Yes, he doesn’t call it “intelligent design,” of course, and I’m confident he would deny the cell is designed.
Resurrection Genomics: Millennia-Old Palm Trees Live Again
Seeds of date palms from the Judean desert, over 2,000 years old, have sprouted and grown into healthy trees. What can we learn from their genes?
Noncoding “Junk” DNA Is Important for Limb Formation
Some defenders of evolutionary orthodoxy would have us believe that we’ve only found a handful of non-coding DNA sequences that have function.
Is the INK4a/ARF Overlap a Settled Example of Poor Design?
Dr. DeBenedictis’s basic argument is that there is a section of the human genome where two genes overlap, both of which are important for suppressing tumors.