'Junk' DNA...
@flowerchilde (12529)
United States
October 21, 2008 2:23pm CST
For a while now scientists have seen some small pieces of DNA in the DNA strings, which are 'empty' so they have called them "junk DNA". Now however, some are thinking these 'blocks' of 'junk' DNA are spacers in the DNA code.. Like the spaces between our sentences and words.. Most new discoveries like these are highly repressed however. Any thoughts of your own on what these 'junk' DNA spaces might be? Do you think DNA code is like a computer program?
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@urbandekay (18278)
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22 Oct 08
As a side point, it is often said that DNA is a code. But it is not. A code, it should be remembered, is an encryption of a language and whilst DNA does represent information it is not an encryption of a language.
all the best urban
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
22 Oct 08
Perhaps rather than DNA code, we should call it DNA instructions..
@urbandekay (18278)
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22 Oct 08
Are you sure you know what a language is?
all the best urban
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@rev1wendy (611)
• United States
22 Oct 08
Are you sure? I may well be the language of our creator.
Rev Wendy
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
22 Oct 08
You are right in that changes/mutations in DNA are always glitches and less good rather than better or being improvements as man likes to think. Scientists have called it 'junk' DNA, but likely there is no 'junk' DNA but just like the tonsils, there's actually a use for it afterall!
@j_thomas (957)
• India
23 Oct 08
Junk DNA are those Dna , for which scientist had found no direct linkage in function of human body(or any animals),In future they may find it,As im frm biotech background i have done some research on that ,Firt Human genome consist of 3 billoion bases of these only 3 to 5 percent codes for genes rest are called had junk DNA ,They had claasified Junk Dna into introns,direct repats,Minisatellites,microsatellites etc,
Introns are those dna which are found between a single genes(eukaryotic genes are not continuous one,they are broke up into 3 or more parts)These introns may help further survival of gene
Mini satellite sequences are used in DNA fingerprinting studies
So God are given a specific function for each things and human has decipher them and use it for right way
Regards
Julian
http://bioisolutions.blogspot.com/
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
23 Oct 08
That's very interesting and informative, thanks! And a great link with brief info on "stem cells"!
@rev1wendy (611)
• United States
21 Oct 08
Being a christian, I have beliefs that follow my faith. I do believe that DNA is similar, but far advanced from, computer programs. The Lord is our creator and all things are his, including the little bit of knowledge we have. If our limited intelligence can create vast computer networks, what can God's knowledge create? We create autos, planes, and spacecraft, yet "believers" state that UFOs cannot be real. I say, "Whatever!" Man continually thinks his knowledge is so great it has to be superiior to God's, but in reality the knowledge we have is a gift from God. A sample of what we can expect to have "on the other side".
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
22 Oct 08
hi rev Wendy! You wrote: "If our limited intelligence can create vast computer networks, what can God's knowledge create?" Awesome! I love that! So often people seem to think no one as good, or as creatively able, as God could possibly exist.. But look what man with his very limited knowledge and flawed nature can do..
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@rev1wendy (611)
• United States
22 Oct 08
Exactly! God has given us the knowledge that we have. And just as we are not able to fully understand Him, so we are not able to fully utilize the gifts and blessings He bestows upon us. God bless and be with you.
Rev Wendy
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
23 Oct 08
Maybe the junk DNA once served a purpose. Maybe that DNA was in Adam and Eve, and used to repair or grow back limbs but they lost that ability when they ate the forbidden fruit. And God let that DNA become junk as a reminder of when they committed the original sin.
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
23 Oct 08
Awesome! I never thought of that possibility! Intriguing possibility..
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
12 Dec 08
Thanks for the best response. I would suppose when we sinned, there was more lost then dying, and not having spiritual blessings unless one repented and being inclined to do all evil (like you might not harm someone, but the thought is now in your head.)
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
24 Feb 09
I believe "junk DNA" might be where the "extra goodies" are stored in our "programming for existance". You know...like special features on a dvd? Only we don't know how to push the button on our tv sets to figure out what the heck is in them and we're missing the dvd case, xD
You get that I like metaphors, right?
Anyway, "extra goodies"...the stuff that suddenly happens for no apparent reason when you can't find a trace of it in the parents' DNA or a plausible cause in the environment. A sudden and unexpected thing...mutations, perhaps.
OR, maybe, I read too many comic books. Maybe we're just not smart enough to know what's in the "junk" files of our "programming for existance". Maybe it serves human being's more extraordinary but already present potential.
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
25 Feb 09
Say I like that!! I've been reading a lot of Dean Koontz lately, his books/thrillers, dealing with nanotechnology, gene splitting, etc.. I find it all very very interesting.. some possibilities a bit spooky however.. "One Door Away From Heaven" was eye opening to me when I read it a few years ago and then looked up some of his references at the end, on the internet. Spoooky indeed.
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
25 Feb 09
I've been writing alot of scifi books/series' lately, so I can honestly say I find it all very interesting as well.
AH, Koontz! =D