Oh, another thing.
Often just after I've hit the reply button and I try to copy a bit of the post to reply to, what I end up with on my clipboard is the whole post plus the thing I copied. It seems to "helpfully" put the post I want to respond to on my clipboard, but then it doesn't overwrite it when next I try to copy something else. Indeed, if I try to copy the whole post, I often get it twice.
For example, I just went to
this post, tried to copy the last line of it, pressed Ctrl+V, and got this:
quote:
It would be harder if they DIDN'T share any parts.
What information is genes telling you?
The same information that everything in the universe has. Humans look at stuff and extract information from them in order to determine their state and their origin. This is true of rocks, clouds, and life. Same type of information in all of them.
My understanding is you are only able to see what the protein makes in the form of bone, tissue etc.
We are able to determine the DNA sequence which tells us how long it has been since two species shared a common ancestor. The more distant that common ancestor the more the DNA sequences for a shared gene will differ.
Considering that most species do share the same proteins because we share the same parts, wouldn't this make the connection between them harder to determine?
It would be harder if they DIDN'T share any parts.
You can see that the line I actually tried to copy was stuck on the front of the whole post which I didn't try to copy and didn't want to.
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Replaced the [indent] and [code]code with [quote] code to get rid of the way overlong lines of text which were causing the page display to be way overwide.