Showing posts with label Junk DNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Junk DNA. Show all posts
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Do plants have junk DNA?

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Current Opinion in Plant Biology has a special edition devoted to Genome studies and molecular genetics 2024 . The only paper (so far) that...
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Saturday, October 26, 2024

Three lungfish species have huge genomes

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Lungfish are our closest living fish cousins. All living terrestrial vertebrates (e.g. amphibians, mammals, reptiles) descent from a common ...
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Friday, September 27, 2024

John Mattick's seminar at the University of Toronto

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I just learned that John Mattick gave a seminar this morning at the Department of Cell & Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. U...
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Sunday, September 01, 2024

Scite Assistant (AI) answers the question "How much of the human genome consist of junk DNA?"

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Scite Assistant is billed as "your AI research partner" and as "ChatGPT for researchers." It's supposed to draw on ...
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Monday, August 12, 2024

Zach Hancock explains junk DNA

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Zach Hancock is a postdoc in ecology & evoluvionary biology at the University of Michigan. He has a YouTube channel with several thousa...
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Wednesday, June 05, 2024

Tom Cech writes about the "dark matter" of the genome

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Tom Cech won a Nobel Prize for discovering one example of a catalytic RNA. He recently published an article in the New York Times extolling...
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Sunday, May 05, 2024

Junk DNA debate: Casey Luskin vs Dan Stern Cardinale

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Here's a link to the junk DNA debate between Dan Stern Cardinale and Casey Luskin. The debate took place on May 2, 2024. ...
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Saturday, May 04, 2024

Casey Luskin posts misleading quotes about junk DNA

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On Thursday May 2, 2024, Casey Luskin and Dan Stern Cardinale debated junk DNA on the YouTube channel "The NonSequitor Show." Davi...
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Friday, March 29, 2024

Why do Intelligent Design Creationists still lie about junk DNA?

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Intelligent Design Creationists are heavily invested in refuting junk DNA because it casts doubt on their model of an intelligently designed...
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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Science misinformation is being spread in the lecture halls of top universities

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Should universities remove online courses that contain incorrect or misleading information? There are lots of scientific controversies...
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Monday, March 18, 2024

Intelligent design creationists think junk DNA is a placeholder for ignorance

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Paul Nelson is a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute—the most important source of intelligent design propaganda. Paul and I have been d...
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Friday, March 15, 2024

Nils Walter disputes junk DNA: (9) Reconciliation

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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...
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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Nils Walter disputes junk DNA: (8) Transcription factors and their binding sites

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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Nils Walter disputes junk DNA: (7) Conservation of transcribed DNA

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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...
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Sunday, March 03, 2024

Nils Walter disputes junk DNA: (5) What does the number of transcripts per cell tell us about function?

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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is arguing against junk DNA by claiming that the human genome ...
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Saturday, March 02, 2024

Nils Walter disputes junk DNA: (4) Different views of non-functional transcripts

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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is trying to explain the conflict between proponents of junk D...
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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Nils Walter disputes junk DNA: (3) Defining 'gene' and 'function'

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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is trying to explain the conflict between proponents of junk D...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Nils Walter disputes junk DNA: (2) The paradigm shaft

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I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is trying to explain the conflict between proponents of junk D...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Copilot answers the question, "What is junk DNA?"

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The Microsoft browser (Edge) has a built in function called Copilot . It's an AI assistant based on ChatGPT-4. I decided to test i...
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Monday, January 15, 2024

Creation Myth: Biologists Thought All Non-Coding DNA was Junk

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Watch this short video from Daniel Stern Cardinale. He read my book!
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