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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-08 03:50 PM
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1. Poorly written article
The role of RNA has long been known to be an important function (there are even different designations for different types of RNA..mRNA..messanger RNA).
Now challenging the one gene one protein idea is different, but I don't think it will shock the scientific world anymore..the multifunction gene idea has been something played around with for awhile.
Also from the study of retroviruses we know that RNA has a lot more potential than was ever thought before.
We are learning a lot about genetics right now and while a lot of the more basic theories are going out the window like the simplistic one gene one protein theory..and junk DNA actually does have a role...we are also gaining a lot of interesting insights and applications (DNA vaccines, gene therapy..etc)
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