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Indeed, what was damned as junk be-
cause it was not understood may, in fact, turn
out to be the very basis of human complexity. 153
Prof. Mattick, a molecular biologist, refers to the
importance of these strings known as introns that do not

directly participate in protein production, and to erroneous in-
terpretations made regarding them:
The failure to recognize the full implications of this . . . may well go down
as one of the biggest mistakes in the history of molecular biology. 154
In New Scientist magazine published November 19, 2005, the im-
portance of so called junk DNA is mentioned:
. . . remarkably, junk DNA may turn out to be as important as genes-if not
more so. . . What's so special about junk DNA that ensures it is moth-
balled in this way? One clue comes from comparing genomes . . . it could
encode vital information that scientists haven't yet unraveled-the more
DNA, the higher the capacity to store information and produce complex
organisms. One thing is clear. Now that we've mapped our genes, it's
time to start exploring the junkyard. 155