Tag: non-coding DNA
New “Long Story” Short: “ERVs, Pseudogenes, & Onions”
Intelligent design is a “science stopper”? It “makes people stupid”? These are among the claims of some smart scientists who ought to know better.
Defending Our Literature Survey on Function for Junk DNA
Our list only scratches the surface of the literature, and you can’t negate the existence of that body of literature through a few complaints.
Disease-Associated “Junk” DNA Is Evidence of Function
When you mess with the “junk,” the result is problems. That doesn’t sound like junk DNA to me.
Casey Luskin Reflects on His Recent Junk DNA Debate
For decades we were told that non-coding regions of our DNA are littered with evolutionary junk.
How the Myth of Junk DNA Hindered Science
For decades, we’ve been told that only a tiny percentage of DNA is functional and that the vast majority is useless junk.