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Old 10-25-2011, 11:17 AM
 
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Junk DNA.
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Old 10-25-2011, 02:39 PM
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Why did I get the picture of Aliens inserting or deleting sections of DNA in Chimps in order to create a new organism - us?
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Old 10-25-2011, 03:43 PM
 
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They ... are among us.
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Old 10-25-2011, 10:50 PM
 
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Humans don't masturbate 20 hours out of every day....
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Old 10-26-2011, 02:39 AM
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Humans don't masturbate 20 hours out of every day....
They deleted that section of DNA.
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Old 10-26-2011, 08:31 AM
 
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Chromosome #2.
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Old 10-26-2011, 10:02 AM
 
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I think that we are only now beginning to scratch the surface as to what the purpose of ''Junk DNA'' is about. Infact i'm in awe that we are actually made of viruses i.e. Retrotransposons as i'm guessing that our ancient genetic code was formulated way back in the early Cambrian era by ancient unknown retro viruses
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Old 10-26-2011, 12:38 PM
 
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Yeah, it wasn't that long ago that they considered junk DNA to be useless. The future is gonna get interesting.
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Old 10-26-2011, 01:02 PM
 
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Why did I get the picture of Aliens inserting or deleting sections of DNA in Chimps in order to create a new organism - us?
Because you're spending too much time reading Von Daniken?
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Old 10-26-2011, 04:06 PM
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Because you're spending too much time reading Von Daniken?
Or listening to Coast to Coast.
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