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This claim, based on no scientific not constitute genes help regulate it. For
grounds, consisted solely of unfounded that reason, any scientist interested in
speculation. The reason why it was so genetics or who closely monitors deve-
easily able to find a place in the literatu- lopments no longer attaches any worth
re was that in those days, very little was to the concept of junk DNA.
known about DNA. The functions of The fact that these DNA segments
those parts of DNA known as “junk” had are in a constant state of activity has ac-
not yet been brought discovered. tually been known for a considerable ti-
However, with the Human Genome me, whether evolutionists like it or not.
Project and other similar genetic rese- Molecular biologists from the Harvard
arch, it emerged that genes were cons- University Medical Faculty and physi-
tantly interacting with one another du- cists from Boston University shed light
ring the protein-production process. (See on this matter in a report titled “Does
Genome Project, the.) During the cour- nonsense DNA speak its own dialect?”
se of this production, It was realized that published in Science magazine in
no one gene works independently of ot- 1994. 233 As a result of their research
her DNA segments. The point we are at into 37 DNA strands containing 50,000
today shows that while one gene works, base pairs, taken from various living
especially during the initial protein codi- things, they reported that the “empty”
fication phase, parts of the DNA that do DNA that makes up 90% of human DNA