NEW YORK TIMES<\/a> story and reflect on the following (some of these answers will require additional research):<\/p>\n1) Do you think that non-coding DNA serves a purpose? Why or Why not?<\/p>\n
2) Identify an article in the published literature that demonstrates that non-coding or junk DNA is actually serving a purpose. Provide the reference to the source and a summary of the paper’s findings.<\/p>\n
3) If non-coding DNA serves a purpose, why do onions have so much more DNA than humans do, yet they seem to be much less complex than a human?<\/p>\n
4) Compare the function of non-coding DNA in humans and bacteria. Discuss findings that have been identified regarding microRNAs in humans and smallRNAs in bacteria. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Is most of our DNA junk? Please read the NEW YORK TIMES story and reflect on the following (some of these answers will require additional research): 1) Do you think that non-coding DNA serves a purpose? Why or Why not? 2) Identify an article in the published literature that demonstrates that non-coding or junk DNA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_joinchat":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}