linkedin post 2016-09-28 05:39:47

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PSEUDOGENES ARISE BY (2): "retrotransposition - reverse transcription of an mRNA transcript with subsequent re-integration of the cDNA into the genome. Such copies of genes are termed processed pseudogenes. These pseudogenes can also accumulate random disablements over the course of evolution." http://pseudogene.org/background.php View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-09-30 05:21:01

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ESSENTIAL GENES WITH NO FUNCTION. "The crux of the story is this: an astonishing number of the genes added to Syn 3.0 at the behest of their computer model, while apparently essential for life, have no known function. Their final genome had exactly 473 genes in it, and a whopping 149 of these are currently mysterious." Not no function, just none yet known. Syn 3.0 was a minimal genome creation. https://lnkd.in/eJEhicj View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-09-30 05:15:05

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MAINSTREAM VIEW: TERRA INFIRMA. "Significant parts of the genome are largely uncharted territory. Only about 5 percent of the 19,000 to 21,000 protein-encoding genes are situated entirely within portions of the human genome currently characterized with high confidence." https://lnkd.in/emhRZgK View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-09-30 05:09:51

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TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS. "Transcription factors are proteins involved in the process of converting, or transcribing, DNA into RNA. Transcription factors include a wide number of proteins, excluding RNA polymerase, that initiate and regulate the transcription of genes." https://lnkd.in/eETEA2N View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-10-01 06:29:26

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EVOLUTIONARY MYSTERY. "The origin and extremely rapid diversification of flowering plants, which Darwin famously referred to as an “abominable mystery,” is one of the most extraordinary, and still not yet fully explained, phenomena in evolutionary history." https://lnkd.in/eZMh-NH View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2016-10-03 04:57:54

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FIXATION BY DRIFT. "What is underappreciated by many nonevolution specialists is that much of molecular evolution in eukaryotes is primarily the result of genetic drift, or the fixation of neutral mutations. This view has been widely appreciated by molecular evolutionary biologists for the past 35 years." http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004351 View in LinkedIn
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