Re: GENOMES: Human gene number revised down

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 20:45:29 MDT

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    --- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
    >
    > On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Jeff Davis commenting on my comments
    > regarding genome sizes wrote:
    >
    > > 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?
    >
    > I'll probably not vote until it is clear whether or
    > not vertebrate complexity is significantly greater
    > than fungi complexity (at the protein level vs. the
    > gene level).
    >
    > But I'm certainly willing to step down a step or two
    > in terms of vertebrates are "so much more complex"
    > than non-vertebrates in the general terms of our current
    > knowledge base. That "assertion" may have taken a
    > significant hit.

    See, it ain't so much a matter of how well the bear dances, but that he
    dances at all.

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