Saccharomyces_cerevisiae_SEM Type post Author Casey Luskin Date January 24, 2019 CategoriesIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, budding yeast, cells, Creative Evolution, cytoplasm, function, intelligent design, introns, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, mRNA, Nature (journal), Oxford University Press, predictions, proteins, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, splicing, The Myth of Junk DNA, W. Ford Doolittle As Predicted by Intelligent Design, “Junk” Introns Are Actually Functional Casey Luskin January 24, 2019 Intelligent Design 6 ID proponents have long predicted that functions would be uncovered for such non-coding DNA. Read More ›
Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2 Type post Author Jonathan McLatchie Date January 21, 2019 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, "survival of the fittest", budding yeast, evolution, genome, John Mattick, junk DNA, MIT, molecular biology, mRNAs, Nature (journal), RNA, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Scientific American, splicing “Junk DNA” Suffers a Blow as Nature Papers Find “Global Function” for Introns in Budding Yeast Jonathan McLatchie January 21, 2019 Evolution, Intelligent Design 9 All of this calls to mind a comment from biologist John Mattick, a critic of the junk DNA paradigm. Read More ›
budding-yeast Type post Author Ann Gauger Date November 26, 2018 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , __k-review, adaptive mutations, ants, bacteria, bacteriophages, BioEssays, budding yeast, Cell (journal), cetaceans, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, deletions, Eugene Koonin, evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, gain-of-function mutations, geneticists, horizontal gene transfer, insertions, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, mutations, polar bears, The Edge of Evolution, The Quarterly Review of Biology, viruses Bacteriophages, Budding Yeast, and Behe’s Vindication Ann Gauger November 26, 2018 Evolution 9 It’s been known for some time that bacteria evade antibiotics by mutating the target of the antibiotic, often at a cost to themselves. Read More ›