“The Days of ‘Junk DNA’ Are Over”

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By Ken Ham

For decades 98% of DNA was considered to be “junk DNA”—useless leftovers from our supposed evolutionary history. This view has held scientific research back as many evolutionists don’t even bother to research the non-coding “junk” regions—but are these days “over”?

A new paper on the platyhelminth worm, Schistosoma mansoni, was published recently in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution. This study looked at repetitive DNA on the female W-chromosome, and they discovered that so-called “junk DNA” portions are involved in sex determination. The study authors write:

The days of “junk DNA” are over. When the senior authors of this article studied …read more

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