Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’ DNA
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Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’ DNA
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Re: Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’ DNA
#2Thinking of DNA as code, with the particularity that outdated versions of the code are kept in "binaries", it's a creative use to recycle them as a random pattern generator!
Re: Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’ DNA
#3Thinking of DNA as code, with the particularity that outdated versions of the code are kept in "binaries", it's a creative use to recycle them as a random pattern generator!
The Ghost in the Machine is beautiful.
Re: Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’ DNA
#4Man, butterflies relying on all this old shit smh.... [ indiscriminate murmuring.... ] Yo hey [hallway scuffling] Yo PM, can't we just deprecate butterflies already? Ah he- I know I kno- yes I understand the boss likes butterflies, pretty and what no- no stop. Butterflies are a cost center, can we just deprecate and phase them out? Deprecation Plan? Cost Center Optimization? Ah shit ah- yeah, we keep the butterflies....
Re: Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’ DNA
#5If some part of DNA is classified as code DNA, why not classify this as data DNA instead of junk?
Re: Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’ DNA
#6Thinking of DNA as code, with the particularity that outdated versions of the code are kept in "binaries", it's a creative use to recycle them as a random pattern generator!
We need to stop using the term “junk” DNA - it’s an outmoded term based on the wrongheaded assumption that DNA directly encoding proteins was the be all end all.
Re: Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’ DNA
#7If some part of DNA is classified as code DNA, why not classify this as data DNA instead of junk?
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Re: Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’ DNA
#8Thinking of DNA as code, with the particularity that outdated versions of the code are kept in "binaries", it's a creative use to recycle them as a random pattern generator!
We need to stop using the term “junk” DNA - it’s an outmoded term based on the wrongheaded assumption that DNA directly encoding proteins was the be all end all.
Right. Its like someone reverse-engineered an executable file and discovered the .data section while calling the .text junk.
Re: Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’ DNA
#9If some part of DNA is classified as code DNA, why not classify this as data DNA instead of junk?
Journalists don’t understand data but they understand junk.
Re: Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’ DNA
#10Thinking of DNA as code, with the particularity that outdated versions of the code are kept in "binaries", it's a creative use to recycle them as a random pattern generator!
We need to stop using the term “junk” DNA - it’s an outmoded term based on the wrongheaded assumption that DNA directly encoding proteins was the be all end all.
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