Tag: Junk DNA
Nature Reviews Genetics — Pseudogene Function Is “Prematurely Dismissed”
As Seth W. Cheetham and his co-authors put it, biology suffers from “demotivation into exploring pseudogene function by the a priori assumption that they are functionless.”
Meyer on “Nested Coding”: Another Successful Design Prediction
Overlapping genes, or “nested coding,” was anticipated by microbiologist Siegfried Scherer.
Care for Appetizers? Electric Proteins, Spidey Sense, and More
Welcome to the second day of the New Year! Like tasty sliders, these short news stories should get the juices flowing for big developments in 2020.
Jonathan Wells Was Right: Non-coding DNA Continues to Show Function
Design predictions rise as evolutionary assumptions fall. The junk DNA myth is, for all practical purposes, falsified.
BioEssays Editor: “‘Junk’ DNA… Full of Information!” Including Genome-Sized “Genomic Code”
How many times have we heard it claimed that the vast majority of the human genome is “junk” and therefore could not have been designed?