98% of Your DNA is Junk

New research shows our DNA is absolutely loaded with... NOTHING. 98 percent of our DNA plays no role in our development. But as Trace learns, the findings may not be so black and white.


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'Junk' DNA Mystery Solved: It's Not Needed
http://news.discovery.com/earth/plant...
"The humped bladderwort plant (shown here in a scanning electron micrograph) is a voracious carnivore, with its tiny bladders leveraging vacuum pressure to suck in bitty prey at great speed."


Evolutionarily Conserved Noncoding DNA in the Human Genome: How Much and What For?
http://genome.cshlp.org/content/11/10...
"The noncoding component of the human genome is receiving increased attention from biologists because of its predicted role in regulation of transcription, DNA replication, chromosome pairing, and chromosome condensation."


Carnivorous Bladderwort Genome Contradicts Notion That Vast Quantities Of Noncoding DNA Crucial For Complex Life
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-carnivor...
"Genes make up about 2 percent of the human genome. The rest consists of a genetic material known as noncoding DNA, and scientists have spent years puzzling over why this material exists in such voluminous quantities."


Noncoding DNA
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmv...
"In genetics, noncoding DNA describes components of an organism's DNA sequences that do not encode for protein sequences."


Human Genome Is Much More Than Just Genes
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow...
"The human genome—the sum total of hereditary information in a person—contains a lot more than the protein-coding genes teenagers learn about in school, a massive international project has found."


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