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Biotech / Medical : Biotech Valuation

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To: John Metcalf who wrote (3004)	2/27/2001 8:02:03 PM
From: Biotech Jim	Read Replies (1) of 52153

"Are you saying that mutation/evolution must come from a necessary amount of random genetic material? In layman's terms, once all DNA is necessary to encode proteins in a functioning being, there would be no more evolution, because there would be no random element left? (Viz., unless the length of the material itself evolves or mutates....)" No, what I meant is that due to all the "junk" DNA that uses up energy along with the replication machinery, this genome has to deal with this "excess" material. It may just mean that there is less room for genomic efficiency. Evolution would of course still come by the established mechanisms of mutation, gene duplication, inter alia, but the additional DNA might slow down the efficiency of replication. Just some food for thought. BJ

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