Just like in our DNA...

[Robin Becker]

In article <001901bf0f2e$4a4ac6b0$f29b12c2 at secret.pythonware.com>,
Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes
>Will Ware <wware-nospam at world.std.com> wrote:
>> That is called "junk DNA" because it is never translated to a
>> protein. There are various conjectures about it.
>
>a quick web search for "junk DNA" brought up three
>major theories (since they were posted on the web,
>they have to be true.  all of them):
>
>    1. the great designer only did one design,
>    and the DNA that we consider as junk is
>    actually used by extra-terrestrial beings.
>
>    (motorola processors, that is)
>
>    2. since there's no possible chance that an
>    evolutionary process would leave junk in
>    there, Darwin was obviously wrong.
>
>    (GvR is in good company, in other words ;-)
>
>    3. statistical analysis shows that the junk
>    looks like human text, which clearly shows
>    that it is actually used in some yet unknown
>    way.
>
>    (docstrings?)
>
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>
4) could be there to absorb gamma rays/neutrons.
5) defends against parasitising viruses by encouraging them to insert
into non-expressed sequences.
6) Allow more extreme mutations to occasionally succeed.

and on and on
-- 
Robin Becker