Jim_Wynne
Posts: 1208 Joined: June 2006
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Quote (stevestory @ July 12 2015,16:22) | first comment on that site:
Quote | Steve Schaffner on July 11, 2015 at 6:52 pm said: This conjecture seems wholly divorced from any known biological mechanisms. There is no analogue in biology for an operating system’s ability to access arbitrary sites in memory by address; all regulatory systems involving DNA ultimately depend on features of the DNA sequence itself. Quite a lot is known about many regulatory pathways, including developmental pathways, and none of them involve the kind of mechanism proposed here. Your suggestion appears to invoke an unknown process to explain nothing in particular.
Moreover, under this proposal, the specific sequence of repetitive DNA is critically important, since it only functions if it’s identical to other elements. But most repetitive DNA shows no signs of selective constraint, as would be the case if this were true.
I don’t see any justification for taking this idea seriously. |
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HaHa, GG's stuff in a nutshell: "Your suggestion appears to invoke an unknown process to explain nothing in particular."
-------------- Evolution is not about laws but about randomness on happanchance.--Robert Byers, at PT
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