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STILL UNKNOWN: “A massive project called ENCODE, which aimed to uncover the role of the 3.3 billion base pairs, or letters of DNA, in the human genome that don’t code for proteins, found that in test tubes, about 80 percent of the genome seemed to have some biological activity, such as affecting whether genes turn on. Whether that translated to any useful or necessary function for humans, however, wasn’t resolved.””
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“‘Junk’ DNA Mystery Solved: It’s Not Needed http://shar.es/yAVwf via @LiveScience

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