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