Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.xcski.com!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: Richmond Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: Largest animal genome 91 billion base-pairs. Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:58:38 +0100 Organization: Frantic Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: <86wmk5frz5.fsf@example.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="60158"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:+6MQBy4+QO09x8mHOpf01P0c/zQ= sha1:HNq89xbOT/WN7Y2WDdbOWwvq9B8= Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id 6A1F822986F; Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:58:45 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4556922978C for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:58:43 -0400 (EDT) id A94965DC29; Sat, 24 Aug 2024 22:58:44 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay-1.kamens.us (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 87F785DC26 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2024 22:58:44 +0000 (UTC) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pmx.weretis.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 600003E898 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:58:39 +0200 (CEST) id 102CC3EDD3; Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:58:39 +0200 (CEST) X-User-ID: eJwNx8EBwCAIA8CVoCZRxsEC+4/Q3u+45Ho3RIHDgf0pY0fzrjPI8BaQp4vi9YmnLEqwmZ34ABjoERA= Bytes: 2456 Lines: 11 RonO writes: > transposon sequence. About 90% of the genome seems to be transposon > sequence at this time, but my guess is that most of the remaining 90% > is just old transposon sequence that has been mutated to the extent If 90% is transposon, that only leaves 10%. Or do they mean 90% of the remaining 10%? Anyway, do these parasitic bits of DNA speed up evolution by creating more replication errors?