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Author Topic:   molecular genetic evidence for a multipurpose genome
Syamsu 
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Message 7 of 317 (20546)
10-23-2002 5:13 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by peter borger
10-23-2002 1:57 AM


I've found a professional biologist talking about mulitpurpose genome on the groups.msn.com/talkorigins messageboard.
Retired Service | The University of Vermont
There is his homepage.
As far as I can tell:
- He conjectures, in line with observation, that sexually reproducing creatures generally can't speciate.
- That sexually reproducing creatures have an ancestor that reproduced in another way that could speciate.
- That this can be proved by inhibiting the sexual reproduction mode of sexually reproducing creatures, so that they return to their pre-sexual "semi-meiotic" evolutionary mode where they are able to speciate
- That this ancestor had "preformed" information in it's multipurpose genome which through shuffling made new species.
- The source of the preformed information is a total mystery.
But again, this is all besides the point in my opinion, since he and you still describe organisms in terms of a possible future event of reproduction. Therefore yours and his theory fall within the scope of Natural Selection theory.
regards,
Mohammad Nor Syamsu

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Syamsu 
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Message 30 of 317 (20780)
10-25-2002 8:43 AM
Reply to: Message 27 by Andya Primanda
10-25-2002 5:49 AM


It's not ethical to knock out genes genes in mice and see what happens! I wouldn't use drosophila either, but organisms which have no nervous system whatsoever, like plants.
regards,
Mohammad Nor Syamsu

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