----- Original Message ----- From: Rupert Boleyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:46 pm Subject: Re: [gurps] Fake scientific genetics for Magery...
> Susan Koziel wrote: > > > I perfer not to ever use the term junk DNA - since I think that's > > probably incorrect. Many of this "junk" is useful, we just don't > know> how it works... and it's likely it plays a role in some > diseases that > > are genetic in natue but we haven't tracked down the genes to. > > I've never liked the term, because it's always seemed likely to me > that > timing and switching functions (for example) need not be managed > through > the direct coding of proteins, so there would be sections of DNA > that > control the functions of genes without necessarily being genes > themselves. I used the interviewer / interviewee's terms. Honestly at the time I could not think of the spelling for intron (I keep wanting to inert another 'o' for some reason), and web access was problematic! The long and the short of the interview was that they sequenced a number of patients with Type-II diabetes, and there were genetic and at least one intronic patterns which matched, the interviewee may have been simplifying or using the interviewer's terminology. Since introns actual use isn't as clearly understood as genes, it's a convenient "hand waving science" for a "genetic" basis for anything, from Supers to Magery. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
