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S/he did.AdminPD told him/her to move it here.

Transposons are junk DNA. One and the same.Transposons make up about 1/3 of our non-coding DNA.

Transposons are supposed to jump in and out of DNA. And usually everything goes OK.Sometimes they get left behind in the host genome because the transposon loses a chunk of something important (and it can't move anymore).McClintock's maize transposons suppressed a color gene (I don't know how -- probably because it was sitting in the gene). If the transposon jumped, the gene suppression disappeared and the maize started making pigment.So, technically, those transposons weren't junk DNA (cause they still worked).Edited by molbiogirl, : No reason given.

Is there something wrong with the search feature?I recently searched a thread for "Brookings" and found only two results. I knew there were others and went thru the thread post by post -- and sure enough, there they were.This isn't the first time this has happened.Am I doing something wrong? Is the search function hinky?

Thanks, RAZD! I feel pretty
oh so pretty
it's a pity how pretty I feeeeeeeeeeeeel ...Naughty kitten.Hey. That book I posted (it lives in The Book Nook now) has some great abiogenesis stuff. Especially Robert Shapiro's part.

Trixie, in case you don't already know, Amen's history.

David Lynch is a film maker. Not a neuroscientist.TM is a load of horse manure. Typical pseudoscience religion a la Christian Science or Scientology.

TM horror storieshttp://trancenet.net/personal/index.shtmlTM infoTranscendental Meditation - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.comHint: Any woo -- homeopathic, nostrum, "medical" device, "religion" -- that offers a "quantum" explanation is full of crap. Period. No exceptions.