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Comment Gene expression regulation (Score 1) 310

Some writers once said that humans only use 5% of their brain because the scientists could only explain the 5% that directly created a recognizable effect when they poked it with a stick. This is like saying a computer uses only 1% of its ability because they can only understand what's on the phosphors in the video tube. Any language needs support functions like comma's and gerunds or the sentences would be nothing more than a jumble of concept words. For instance take the last sentence and remove everything but the "important" words and then mix them up and you get. Support gerunds functions nothing concept jumble language. Hardly understandable. The rest of the genetic language probably has to do with regulation of ontological development, phenotype expression, and such. Antibodies generally have an RNA segment attached how difficult would it be to use something similar on non-protean coding sequences to regulate transcription. Wouldn't you expect that as the number of genes increases and their interactions exponentially explode that the percentage of code necessary for regulation would come to dominate the portion coding for the proteins.

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