From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Fri Nov 22 2002 - 10:57:23 MST
2002-11-22 01:20:32, "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
>ca-ca.
>
>The junk DNA does serve a "useful" purpose in being a sink for the
>free radicals that would otherwise attack "useful" DNA. Mostly it
>is leftovers from evolutionary events that served some really functional
>purpose.
>
>Any other proposals seem highly likely to be more fantasy than fact.
>
>Robert
I was/am dubious myself. I wonder if the fractality is due to a quasifractal distribution of leftovers. In
that case, it might be about as useful as counting tree rings is to the study of human gerontology. :)
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