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Joined: May 2002  (Permalink) Posted: April 30 2003,18:28   
The topic of so-called "junk" DNA (or, apparently disposable
noncoding DNA, more neutrally) has come up endless times in
various online debates.  Often, someone will find a new article
indicating a function for some bit of DNA, and declare that the
"junk" hypothesis is dead and that those evil materialists were
blinded by their evil materialism for ever believing it.  The
situation is of course much  more complex, so link/post
articles, posts (both sides), etc. in this thread.   charlie d
Posts: 56 Joined: Oct. 2002  (Permalink) Posted: April 30
2003,18:41     Funny you should post this today.  The following
is coming out tomorrow in Nature: Nature 423, 91 - 96 (2003)  A
pseudogene is a gene copy that does not produce a functional,
full-length protein. The human genome is estimated to contain up
to 20,000 pseudogenes. Although much effort has been devoted to
understanding the function o