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This is just hubris. A worm has the same number of protein coding genes as us. Obviously the 'non-functinal' DNA is doing something important, we just haven't worked it out yet.

I would be very hesitant to criticize an evolutionary construct that has developed on a billion year timescale.



Back in bio class, my professor said that in lab tests, replacing the non-protein-coding dna with something man-made hasn't been shown to have any effect. (Removing it does have an effect).


So how did they test whether swapping it had no effect?




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