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Junk DNA 116  Posted by samzenpus from the who-needs-it? dept.
Carnivorous Plant Ejects Junk DNA  Comments Filter:   • junk dna
(Score:5, Interesting)      by bdabautcb (1040566)
<bodaciouswaggler.yahoo@com> on Monday May 13, 2013 @01:09PM
(#43712525)     My understanding is that junk DNA is no longer a
useful term because the DNA that isn't translated has been found
to have structural and other epigenetic properties. I wonder if
the complexity of mamallian vs. plant development plays a role
here. Any biologists out there?   • by Cyberax (705495) on
Monday May 13, 2013 @01:15PM (#43712595)     Wrong! Most of junk
DNA is... wait for it... JUNK!      We can tell the composition
of the junk for approximately 66% of the human genome. There is
a small amount of regulatory elements mixed with all this junk,
but the junk itself is not necessary for anything.      Even
without the extreme examples such as bladderwort we readily
observe 10x variability in