junk DNA
08/06/2017 / By Isabelle Z.
Scientists admit they really have no idea what 75% of human genetic code is actually used for
A new study has found that three-fourths of the human genome is non-functional or “junk DNA,” which might mean it doesn’t do anything … or it could just mean that scientists have no idea what it is used for yet. They do know, however, what it doesn’t do: These garbled sequences of nucleotides do not […]
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