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Subject: Re: Largest animal genome 91 billion base-pairs.
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RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> 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?