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Any source on that bit about junk DNA?

I just completed a reasonably advanced course on computational biology and I was still taught that although we have found noncoding DNA performing functions, the majority of our DNA is both noncoding and not used for anything (i.e. evolutionarily obsolete, transposons, etc).




Huh. I haven't heard that take on "junk DNA" in a long time.

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Noncodi...


You are correct. Most non-coding DNA is junk, which amounts to around 90% of the genome. Dead transposons alone make up just under half of the human genome.


You know, if we really wanted to be sure about that, we could just check the commit comments.




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