Peter Borger says:
"All information an organism needs to adapt to an environment is already present in the genome. It only has to be activated. This can be in response to external stimuli. The activation may lead to gene shuffling (as recently observed in some bacteria), or maybe even to non-random mutations in promoters.
The SNP we see in genes throughout the genome may be generated in a similar way due to a degenerate mechanism of gene shuffling, non-random mutation etc."
However these assertions appear to be contradicted by the reality of the human GLO pseudogene. What is needed to "activate" the GLO pseudogene? An external stimulus like deficiency in dietary vitamin C intake? Where is the evidence that the pseudogene has ever been activated by SNP mutation (presumably the reinsertion of the common sigle nucleotide deletion)?
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