(May 21, 2012 at 9:43 pm)Abishalom Wrote:(May 21, 2012 at 9:07 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Do you understand don’t you Abishalom that even though we don’t know the function of most of that noncoding DNA it is still very similar between closely related species? For example most of the differences in the DNA of humans and chimps are in the noncoding genes not the coding genes.
Similarities of noncoding DNA or protein coding DNA? If it's the former then we do need to know the function seeing the 99% of noncoding DNA function is unknown. If it's the latter, well that only makes up 1% of the 3+ billion base pairs so it is not an accurate representation of the whole genome (yet scientist still base said claim on it).
Quote:Do you understand that the reason you don’t have a tail lies not in coding genes but in the noncoding genes? It is because noncoding regions control how the coding genes are activated and read.I actually am aware of that. Are you aware that 99% of the noncoding DNA function is unknown? So good luck trying to pinpoint which sequence controls tail function (or lack thereof). Which is my point. If you are going to prove humans evolved from an ape (or that humans are apes) you are going to have to crack that region and compare the known function to come to an accurate conclusion. It seems like scientist are just dragging their feet in the mud or just plain ignoring it.
Leme make this simple. The similarities are in the base pairs. You don't have to know what the DNA does to know that humans and chimps share almost 99% of their DNA. That means almost 99% of base pairs in chimps and humans coincide.
