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Take the "Junk" DNA Quiz!

Jan 18, 2008

Larry Moran poses a question in the form of a "junk" DNA quiz on his blog, which asks, "How much of our genome could be deleted without having any significant effect on our species?" He's already got a long track of blog replies, and the discussion helps clarify any confusion GTO may have admitted to in the past. (Thank goodness someone knows their function from non-function.) We have our own question:  What is the least number of lines of text you have to write in order to footnote something?

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