Just like in our DNA...

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 06-Oct-99 Tom Loredo wrote:
 >  code into proteins.  However, according to this talk, it is now
 >  believed that at least some of this DNA serves a critical function
 >  in determining under what situations various bits of coding DNA
 >  are expressed---chemicals bond to upstream noncoding DNA and trigger
 >  the transcription of the coding parts.  As already noted in the
 >  thread, lower organisms tend to have a much higher ratio of
 >  coding to noncoding DNA; but this may have more to do with them
 >  being simpler (single cells rather than multicellular with different
 >  cells needing to express different coding genes) and thus not
 >  needing the extra control function of the noncoding DNA.

So, they are case-clauses... :)

This discussion certainly has evolved... 

/Mikael

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