(urth) Mystery of Ascia

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No dia 2011/01/25, às 20:24, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>  
escreveu:

> So, Wikipedia is saying that there can be a lot of gene variation  
> where the difference doesn't DO
> anything. This relates to the idea of "junk DNA"

No, they are saying that there
may be different alleles which produce a similar phenotype. They are  
talking about expressed DNA. It's not a matter of having a couple of  
different bases which make no difference on the result. The coded  
proteins may differ in structure yet not in function.