ShadowMster
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ORIGINAL: Tikkiee DNA repair is the process of correction. Copying error is a natural progression of mutation. In most cases; the exception being treatments for fatal disease; repair will occur...or at least that is the theory lol. Let me add my two cents here.. Because of the large number of DNA elements in any person, a copy error will often go unnoticed when the cell in question dies (if in fact, it ever survives). Science has already shown that DNA is alot like a complex computer program in that sometimes you can change a byte of code and have no effect, sometimes improve it, and sometimes, it simply locks up the PC. In this case, if the mutation occurs because of copy error, and it survives, and it's able to reproduce, you have a mutation in the traditional sense (perhaps a cancer tumor or super human strength or even the ability to move metal with your mind -- but that's another comic bookstoryc) quote:
ORIGINAL: Tikkiee BUT...and this is where I am getting confused at we know that genetic drift occurs over time due to population and geographical restrictions; HOW COME the genes are not able to repair themselves and remain constant? The repair isn't usually a repair in the same way you think of your car being fixed, unless you consider your care repaired because the old one was blown up and a new one put in it's place. The problems with brothers and sisters having kids has much to do with too many dominate jeans within the same strand, and not enough diversirty. quote:
ORIGINAL: Tikkiee in that same vein...with natural selection. How come the genes do not remain constant. Natural section effects the source program. Therefore, as it replicates, the "error" remains constant and in fact becomes the new "norm". Therefore, any "repair" would be to this new "norm" quote:
ORIGINAL: Tikkiee I just cant seem to connect all three in my mind as being seperate...it just seems that the ability to repair a gene naturally would outweigh the ability to evolve. Ability to envolve: No. Ability to mutate: Yes. Again, one makes a defective copy (mutation) where one changes the actual source template.
< Message edited by ShadowMster -- 10/10/2006 9:57:41 AM >
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