How Creationism Taught Me Real Science 82 Junk DNA

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Channel: Tony Reed · 2018 · Education

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In this episode we examine that old evolutionist stalwart, Junk DNA and how it was shown to have function after all.


References:

Creationist Arguments
http://www.icr.org/article/junk-dna-myth-continues-its-demise/
https://creation.com/junk-dna-evolutionary-discards-or-gods-tools
https://answersingenesis.org/genetics/junk-dna/

Roger and Colette Vendrely's paper
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225457409_La_teneur_du_noyau_cellulaire_en_acide_desoxyribonucleique_a_travers_les_organes_les_individus_et_les_especes_animales

C-Value Paradox
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.ge.05.120171.001321?journalCode=genet

Number of Coding Genes
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4204768/

Selfish DNA
https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/SCBCDG.pdf

DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors
http://www.pnas.org/content/74/12/5463

Human Genome Project
https://www.genome.gov/11006943/human-genome-project-completion-frequently-asked-questions/

David Comings' Paper
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4578264/

Susumu Ono's paper
http://www.junkdna.com/ohno.html

Robert Sinsheimer's letter
https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/556937/100%20Sinsheimer%20R%201984%20Letter.pdf

And Workshop
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0888754389901420?via%3Dihub

Mihaela Pertea & Steven Salzberg 2010
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-2010-11-5-206

National Institutes of Health Findings
https://www.genome.gov/12513430/

Robert Dulbecco - A turning point in cancer research: Sequencing the human genome
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/231/4742/1055

Human Genome Project Results
Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222090512_Finishing_the_euchromatic_sequence_of_the_human_genomeNature2004431931945

Craig Venter - The sequence of the human genome
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/291/5507/1304.full.pdf

Megabase Deletions of Gene Deserts Result in Viable
Mice
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yiwen_Zhu2/publication/8220004_Megabase_deletions_of_gene_deserts_result_in_viable_mice/links/0deec534c29e179c14000000/Megabase-deletions-of-gene-deserts-result-in-viable-mice.pdf

https://www.nature.com/news/2004/041018/full/news041018-7.html

ENCODE
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3439153/

Widespread purifying selection on RNA structure in mammals
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3783177/

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