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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: Hadrian on 27/04/2006 19:45:40

Title: What is the function of "junk" DNA?
Post by: Hadrian on 27/04/2006 19:45:40

'Junk DNA', portions of your genome which appear to have no specific purpose, may not be useless after all.

A team of scientists has identified patterns in both the junk areas of the genome and those which coded for proteins. Could these parts of the genome have a function after all?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4940654.stm

Title: What is the function of "junk" DNA?
Post by: Jimbob12321 on 28/07/2008 13:50:10

In molecular biology, junk DNA is a provisional label for the portions of the DNA sequence of a chromosome or a genome for which no function has been identified. These parts of the genomemay have a function but at the present time it is unknown.