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'Junk' DNA Mystery Solved: It's Not Needed
'Junk' DNA Mystery Solved: It's Not Needed
Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer
Date: 12 May 2013 Time: 01:00 PM ET
One person's trash may be another person's treasure, but sometimes, trash is just trash.
So-called junk DNA, the vast majority of the genome that doesn't code for proteins, really isn't needed for a healthy organism, according to new research.
"At least for a plant, junk DNA really is just junk it's not required," said study co-author Victor Albert, a molecular evolutionary biologist at the University of Buffalo in New York.
While the findings, published Sunday (May 12) in the journal Nature, concern a carnivorous plant, they could have implications for the human genome as well. Genes make up only 2 percent of the human genome, and researchers have argued in recent years that the remaining 98 percent may play some hidden, useful role.
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'Junk' DNA Mystery Solved: It's Not Needed | Live Science

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