Re: Evolution of DNA and Code.

On May 4, 2:26=A0am, HW@. (Henry Wilson) wrote:

So what is the form and actual purpose of all that surplus DNA? Is nature=
a lot
smarter than we have previously believed? Has it outsmarted even our most
advanced computers by writing very complex instructions in quarternary co=
de?

The mind boggles at the possibilities...

It boggles, indeed! And speaking of "surplus"=A0and so called "junk"
DNA, does someone really claim that it is KNOWN that it is surplus/
junk? And if so, on what grounds?

And the (so far) clear "winner" in seemingly carrying more (a LOT
more) DNA than what is likely to be needed to replicate the organism,
Amoeba proteus (genome size 600 000 000 000 000 base pairs, 200 times
more that what it takes to "specify" a human)--and this for a one-
celled organism!

Back to my question about "cumulative selection": can someone tell me
how it is supposed to work? Why would potentially single "beneficiary"
mutations somehow lurk in the genome until another "benficiary"
mutation happens to cause another base pair to be properly linked up
to it, and so on, until suddenly a new "useful feature" is created (by
sheer random chance) for natural selection to work on?

Henry Norman


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