Tag: enhancers

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, addiction, alleles, anomalies, Barbara McClintock, BioEssays, circadian rhythms, cognition, DNA, enhancers, epigenetic code, epigenetic inheritance, epigenetics, evolution, genes, genomes, human genome, intelligence, intelligent design, introns, John Mattick, junk DNA, lncRNAs, methylation, molecular biology, mRNAs, neutral evolution, paradigm shift, personality, retroviruses, Ribosome, Scientific American, Short Tandem Repeats, Thomas Kuhn, transposable elements, transposons}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 9, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, apes, cancer, common ancestry, DNA, Endogenous retroviruses, enhancers, env, ERVs, evolution, evolutionary mechanism, gag, gene expression, genome, humans, Immune System, intelligent design, junk DNA, lncRNAs, narrative gloss, pol, promoters, viruses}

Junk No Longer: ERVs Are “Integral” and “Important Components” of Immune Responses

_{Casey Luskin
July 9, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

It’s another example of a paper that sounds like it could have been written by a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›

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post

Date
April 21, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chromatin, cohesin, DNA, double helix, enhancers, enzymes, genome, intelligent design, loop extrusion, molecular motors, Nature (journal), nucleus, promoters, repair}

Cells Use Loop Extrusion to Keep DNA Optimized

_{Science and Culture
April 21, 2021

Intelligent Design

7}

A paper illustrates the action of DNA loop extrusion processes, which serve multiple functions to maintain the genome, with an interesting graphic: gears. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Behe

Date
April 12, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, bacteriophages, Darwin Devolves, E. coli, enhancers, evolution, FCT, Functional-Coded-elemenT, insulators, lambda, LTEE, MacArthur Fellow, Michigan State University, National Academy of Sciences, OmpF, promoters, Richard Lenski, Science (journal), Sean Carroll, Telliamed Revisited, The Edge of Evolution, The Quarterly Review of Biology}

Can’t Anybody Here Make Distinctions?

_{Michael Behe
April 12, 2019

Biology, Evolution

6}

Professor Lenski revisits a series of experiments on the bacteriophage lambda begun by his lab around 2012. Read More ›