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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 25 2009,23:24   

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The data compression (multiple meanings) of some stretches of human DNA is estimated to be up to 12 codes thick!

What does that mean? That twelve genes have been started by separate start codons but overlap before a stop codon stops all of them? If that's what it means, just how is that a sign of any kind of intelligence? That sort of thing would be a major handicap in any situation in which a change to one or two of them would be beneficial but would break some of the others.

Or did I misread it?

Henry

  
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