Re: GENOMES: Human gene number revised down

From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 13:46:53 MDT

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    --- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:

    > Why/how the Fugu genome manages to
    produce a vertebrate with ~10x less genomic code will
    indeed be a very interesting puzzle to answer.

     Once the proto-fugu evolved the poison by which it is
    protected and noteworthy it didn't need any additional
    genetic "flourishes". It didn't have to cobble
    together an inelegant and ponderous collection of
    bells and whistles(not a M-soft design) to earn its
    place in a competitive world. Exit the food chain
    with a one-size-lethal-to-all sodium (potassium?,
    calcium?) channel blocker, and you've earned your
    place in the genetic evolutionary pantheon.
      
    > For comparison purposes -- they just finished the
    genome of bread mold -- nearly 10,000 genes. Wow! I
    would have hoped that I was at least three times as
    complex as bread mold, instead, according to the
    article cited I'm closer to two times as complex.

    Does this mean that from now on you'll renounce your--
    at the very least disproportionate if not entirely
    unwarranted--prejudice, and show more respect for
    bread mold, and acknowledge its accomplishments and
    rightful place of honor in the universe?

    Smile when you say "slime", after all, your speaking
    of our forefathers/mothers (or would that be
    foreslime?).

    >
    <snip>
    > Robert
     
    Best, Jeff Davis

    "That's the whole problem with science. You've got a
    bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of
    unimaginable wonder."
                     --Calvin (& Hobbes)

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