Research team finds important role for junk DNA


KurzweilAI.net May 20, 2009

Researchers from Princeton
University and Indiana University
have found that "junk" DNA may
actually perform essential
functions. Genes called transposons
in the single-celled pond-dwelling
organism Oxytricha produce cell
proteins known as transposases,
which influence hundreds of
thousands of DNA pieces to regroup.
Organisms with these genes...

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