Re: Non-DNA inheritance - RNA implicated???

From: Tim Tyler (tim_at_tt1lock.org)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:08:42 -0500 (EST)

Jason <falciparum@hotmail.com> wrote or quoted:
> > Tim Tyler <t...@tt1lock.org> wrote or quoted:

> >Perhaps the researchers were not aware that DNA contains an error
> >code [1] that could be used for the purposes of correcting errors with
> >about the fidelity they are talking about - and maybe their reviewers
> >were unaware of it as well :-(
>
> I think they know more than you credit. Their statement, "we propose
> this is a template directed process" can apply to many types of
> template. Their point is that something, whatever it is, is hanging
> around undetected for several generations and popping back up in the
> form of a SPECIFIC revertant. RNA is quite logical based on other
> recent experiments with siRNA and microRNAs. This doesn't prove it,
> but it sets the stage for testing it.

An RNA explanation would qualify as a template.

An error correction based on an error-detection code that fell
short of a complete backup would not.

> If you think it is some type of parity code, fine, it may well be, but
> show me a gel you probed with a parity probe.

I'm proposing a hypothesis. The next thing to do is probably to look
more closely at the *existing* data - to see if it fits the hypothesis.

> Don't sarcastically dismiss their education and data just because
> you had a daydream that it might be explained in some other manner.

I *did* say "perhaps", and "maybe".

I'll have to wait and see if those conditionals pan out. 

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