Science > Abortion > Re: When Connected to a Life Support System is He/She/It Alive?
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Re: When Connected to a Life Support System is He/She/It Alive? |
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
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Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Paul Anderson" <elcoyote@netzero.net> wrote in message
"Genetic code" doesn't mean ***** when defining if something is an
organism or being. AFAIK there is *NO* accepted definition of
organism or being that demands that the organism or being only
contains one set of DNA. If you're going to claim I'm wrong at
least
try to do so without posting bogus crap.
You certainly don't know what you are talking about. Each organism
carries only _ONE_ genetic code (DNA).
Wrong. A given person while have MANY different genetic codes. Gene
mutation is a commonplace result of environmental toxins and radiation.
Most such mutations are either corrected or are benign, but some end
up as cancer tumors.
Read the 7/2003 issue of Scientific American for more information.
Mutations alter the DNA.
Correct.
But each person has one and only one
Genome.
You're contradicting yourself. Mutations alter than genome.
Mutations mean that during transcription one or more of the bases in
a codon has been subsituted for another, or a codon is misread by
the ribosome or a anticodon is misplaced or a regulatory gene
calls upon another gene to express for a sixth finger etc. But
this happens to the one DNA you have.
The point is once a mutation occurs in an organism's DNA it
doesn't correct itself. (Otherwise it isn't a mutation)
So you still have only one genetic code modified by some
mutation.
This doesn't mean you don't share a major portion with other
critters - you do. Some 98.4 percent with Chimps. Even with
'the nimotode worm you share many regulatory genes.
We have some 4 trillion cells each cell has a copy of the
individuals genetic code, but it is the same code.
No, it is not. I just explained why it is not. Didn't read what I
just wrote?
You don't know what you are talking about.
Do you think that mindlessly repeating falsehoods using
different words somehow makes them true?
Because you don't know enough to agree doesn't mean I'm
wrong.
Mutations affect
part or (parts) of the code, not the entire genome.
Well *****, the "entire genome" isn't different between any two
individuals. In fact you'll find chunks of genome that are common
between you and pretty much any animal.
All life on this planet is based upon the same DNA code. This is
comparable to the alaphabet. It is the way the code is arranged as to
what traits and characteristic are expressed. A genome of a human
and a frog is not the same message. The DNA is instructions for
the next generaion and the information needed to carry out the
living process.
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Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net
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23 Jun 2003 11:26:39 AM |
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"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
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Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
You certainly don't know what you are talking about. Each organism
carries only _ONE_ genetic code (DNA).
Wrong. A given person while have MANY different genetic codes.
Gene
mutation is a commonplace result of environmental toxins and
radiation.
Most such mutations are either corrected or are benign, but some end
up as cancer tumors.
Read the 7/2003 issue of Scientific American for more information.
Mutations alter the DNA.
Correct.
But each person has one and only one
Genome.
You're contradicting yourself. Mutations alter the genome.
Mutations mean that during transcription one or more of the bases in
a codon has been subsituted for another, or a codon is misread by
the ribosome or a anticodon is misplaced or a regulatory gene
calls upon another gene to express for a sixth finger etc.
Thus resulting in a different genome.
But
this happens to the one DNA you have.
Nobody has just one DNA. People have about 100,000,000
copies - one for each cell in the body. Approximately.
The point is once a mutation occurs in an organism's DNA it
doesn't correct itself. (Otherwise it isn't a mutation)
So you still have only one genetic code modified by some
mutation.
Each cell in a person's body has its own DNA. Modifying one copy
does not affect all of the other copies.
We have some 4 trillion cells each cell has a copy of the
individuals genetic code, but it is the same code.
No, it is not. I just explained why it is not. Didn't read what I
just wrote?
You don't know what you are talking about.
Snicker.
Mutations affect
part or (parts) of the code, not the entire genome.
Well *****, the "entire genome" isn't different between any two
individuals. In fact you'll find chunks of genome that are common
between you and pretty much any animal.
All life on this planet is based upon the same DNA code.
Except for all that life which depends upon RNA.
This is
comparable to the alaphabet. It is the way the code is arranged as to
what traits and characteristic are expressed. A genome of a human
and a frog is not the same message. The DNA is instructions for
the next generaion and the information needed to carry out the
living process.
Good. You know the 6th grade version of genetics.
Have I convinced you yet that each person has only one unique DNA?
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Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net
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23 Jun 2003 11:38:38 PM |
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Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Good. You know the 6th grade version of genetics.
Have I convinced you yet that each person has only one unique DNA?
Since it is a well established fact that 1) a person has about 75
trillion copies of their nuclear DNA, and 2) mutations routinely
create _different_ unique sets of DNA, and 3) chimerism can result
in people who are a mix of genes, and 4) all this has been explained
to you more than once, the question I have is...
Are you stupid?
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Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net
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24 Jun 2003 03:49:41 PM |
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"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
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Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Good. You know the 6th grade version of genetics.
Have I convinced you yet that each person has only one unique DNA?
Since it is a well established fact that 1) a person has about 75
trillion copies of their nuclear DNA, and 2) mutations routinely
create _different_ unique sets of DNA, and 3) chimerism can result
in people who are a mix of genes, and 4) all this has been explained
to you more than once, the question I have is...
Are you stupid?
No, but I keep trying to inform you, so may be I am. If I were
smart I would give it up. But one last time:
each cell has a copy of the host DNA, each cell
comes *equipped* with homobox genes which communicates which
part of the gene is to be expressed. IOW the eye, kidneys, liver
etc.etc. all have the same set of DNA. How the genes express
for an eye for example, is determined by a hox gene called pax-6.
There are hundreds of these homeobox molecules which
control the development of living organisms. Homobox genes
called by such weird names as tailess, eyeless, hedgehog, hoxd-13
etc.
So my point is each cell contains a copy of the DNA of the
host. I don't discount that DNA sometimes mutates due
to chemicals, overexposure to radiation, solar ultraviolet
and all to frequently becomes cancerous etc. Even aging
cells become inexact copies of the parent cell since info
is lost during transcription. But it's the
origional copies of DNA that become been affected. You
think this constitutes new DNA in each mutated cell. Fine!
But these aging and cancerious cells are degenerated copies
of the origional.
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Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net
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| User: "Stephen" |
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25 Jun 2003 03:01:10 PM |
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"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
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Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Good. You know the 6th grade version of genetics.
Have I convinced you yet that each person has only one unique DNA?
Since it is a well established fact that 1) a person has about 75
trillion copies of their nuclear DNA, and 2) mutations routinely
create _different_ unique sets of DNA, and 3) chimerism can result
in people who are a mix of genes, and 4) all this has been explained
to you more than once, the question I have is...
Are you stupid?
No, but I keep trying to inform you, so may be I am.
You keep trying to push your falsehood and lies and I'm not buying.
If I were
smart I would give it up. But one last time:
each cell has a copy of the host DNA,
No such thing as "the host DNA".
each cell
comes *equipped* with homobox genes which communicates which
part of the gene is to be expressed. IOW the eye, kidneys, liver
etc.etc. all have the same set of DNA.
WRONG!
Actually it's you who is wrong. If you knew ANYTHING at all you'd know that
the same DNA can create different body parts depending on how that DNA is
used. I can't comment on the exact terminology, but I have seen programmes
on TV about this, so I know this to be true.
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| User: "Stephen" |
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26 Jun 2003 11:51:42 AM |
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"H,R.Gruemm" <psychotech@xpoint.at> wrote in message
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"Stephen" <s@s.net> wrote in message
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"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
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Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Good. You know the 6th grade version of genetics.
Have I convinced you yet that each person has only one unique DNA?
Since it is a well established fact that 1) a person has about 75
trillion copies of their nuclear DNA, and 2) mutations routinely
create _different_ unique sets of DNA, and 3) chimerism can result
in people who are a mix of genes, and 4) all this has been
explained
to you more than once, the question I have is...
Are you stupid?
No, but I keep trying to inform you, so may be I am.
You keep trying to push your falsehood and lies and I'm not buying.
If I were
smart I would give it up. But one last time:
each cell has a copy of the host DNA,
No such thing as "the host DNA".
each cell
comes *equipped* with homobox genes which communicates which
part of the gene is to be expressed. IOW the eye, kidneys, liver
etc.etc. all have the same set of DNA.
WRONG!
Actually it's you who is wrong. If you knew ANYTHING at all you'd know
that
the same DNA can create different body parts depending on how that DNA
is
used. I can't comment on the exact terminology, but I have seen
programmes
on TV about this, so I know this to be true.
What Ray means - if I may speak for him - is that because of mutations
during the development process, different parts of our bodies may
quite well have different DNA.
I'm don't claim to be any sort of specialist in this field, however, you may
be right that it is possible for certain cells to have different DNA from
that which would be considered to be the person's DNA pattern, but then
again it might not. Either way, what's the point of this whole debate?!
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| User: "J.D. Wolfe" |
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26 Jun 2003 03:21:29 PM |
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"H,R.Gruemm" <psychotech@xpoint.at> wrote in message
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"Stephen" <s@s.net> wrote in message
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"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
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Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Good. You know the 6th grade version of genetics.
Have I convinced you yet that each person has only one unique DNA?
Since it is a well established fact that 1) a person has about 75
trillion copies of their nuclear DNA, and 2) mutations routinely
create _different_ unique sets of DNA, and 3) chimerism can result
in people who are a mix of genes, and 4) all this has been
explained
to you more than once, the question I have is...
Are you stupid?
No, but I keep trying to inform you, so may be I am.
You keep trying to push your falsehood and lies and I'm not buying.
If I were
smart I would give it up. But one last time:
each cell has a copy of the host DNA,
No such thing as "the host DNA".
each cell
comes *equipped* with homobox genes which communicates which
part of the gene is to be expressed. IOW the eye, kidneys, liver
etc.etc. all have the same set of DNA.
WRONG!
Actually it's you who is wrong. If you knew ANYTHING at all you'd know
that
the same DNA can create different body parts depending on how that DNA
is
used. I can't comment on the exact terminology, but I have seen
programmes
on TV about this, so I know this to be true.
What Ray means - if I may speak for him - is that because of mutations
during the development process, different parts of our bodies may
quite well have different DNA.
Why does this matter? At the time of fertilization, each cell receives a
copy
of DNA. As the organism reaches sexual maturity, dna does become subject
to a whole host or chemical, environmental agents which can cause cellular
and dna damage. Consequently, the damaged dna reproduces the *error*.
This often time spirals into increasingly defective cellular reproduction
and
cancer ensues. Thus the flawed dna in one part of the body is different
from the dna in a more normal or healthy cell.
Regards,
HRG.
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25 Jun 2003 10:17:32 PM |
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"Stephen" <s@s.net> wrote in message
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"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
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Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Good. You know the 6th grade version of genetics.
Have I convinced you yet that each person has only one unique DNA?
Since it is a well established fact that 1) a person has about 75
trillion copies of their nuclear DNA, and 2) mutations routinely
create _different_ unique sets of DNA, and 3) chimerism can result
in people who are a mix of genes, and 4) all this has been explained
to you more than once, the question I have is...
Are you stupid?
No, but I keep trying to inform you, so may be I am.
You keep trying to push your falsehood and lies and I'm not buying.
If I were
smart I would give it up. But one last time:
each cell has a copy of the host DNA,
No such thing as "the host DNA".
each cell
comes *equipped* with homobox genes which communicates which
part of the gene is to be expressed. IOW the eye, kidneys, liver
etc.etc. all have the same set of DNA.
WRONG!
Actually it's you who is wrong. If you knew ANYTHING at all you'd know
that
the same DNA can create different body parts depending on how that DNA is
used. I can't comment on the exact terminology, but I have seen programmes
on TV about this, so I know this to be true.
You cannot debate Ray. He deletes the revelent parts without any notation
and responds only to that which he can spin.
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| User: "Matt Pillsbury" |
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26 Jun 2003 12:34:04 PM |
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(H,R.Gruemm) writes:
"Stephen" <s@s.net> wrote in message
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Actually it's you who is wrong. If you knew ANYTHING at all you'd
know that the same DNA can create different body parts depending
on how that DNA is used. I can't comment on the exact terminology,
but I have seen programmes on TV about this, so I know this to be
true.
What Ray means - if I may speak for him - is that because of
mutations during the development process, different parts of our
bodies may quite well have different DNA.
Dean's assertion was silly to begin with. Most eukaryotic *cells* are
going to contain at least two sets of DNA.
--
Matt Pillsbury "The brain is an important learning
pillsy@mac.com tool, Meatwad."--ATHF
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26 Jun 2003 02:16:45 PM |
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"Matt Pillsbury" <mtp@seesig.com> wrote in message
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psychotech@xpoint.at (H,R.Gruemm) writes:
"Stephen" <s@s.net> wrote in message
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[...]
Actually it's you who is wrong. If you knew ANYTHING at all you'd
know that the same DNA can create different body parts depending
on how that DNA is used. I can't comment on the exact terminology,
but I have seen programmes on TV about this, so I know this to be
true.
What Ray means - if I may speak for him - is that because of
mutations during the development process, different parts of our
bodies may quite well have different DNA.
Dean's assertion was silly to begin with. Most eukaryotic *cells* are
going to contain at least two sets of DNA.
--
Matt Pillsbury "The brain is an important learning
pillsy@mac.com tool, Meatwad."--ATHF
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26 Jun 2003 02:46:26 PM |
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"Robert Dean" <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> writes:
"Matt Pillsbury" <mtp@seesig.com> wrote in message
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Dean's assertion was silly to begin with. Most eukaryotic *cells*
are going to contain at least two sets of DNA.
I can accept that some biologist may see mitochondria as another
DNA molecule, but it is passed on only from the mother.
No biologist would say that. Pretty much every biologist in the world
would say that mitochondria contain their own DNA, however.
It is outside the cell nucleus and does not recombine. So if this is
what you are in reference to OK. I accept!
Does this mean you will cease making foolish claims about "ONE DNA
code"?
--
Matt Pillsbury "The brain is an important learning
pillsy@mac.com tool, Meatwad."--ATHF
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| User: "Ray Fischer" |
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25 Jun 2003 09:44:58 PM |
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Stephen <s@s.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
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Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Good. You know the 6th grade version of genetics.
Have I convinced you yet that each person has only one unique DNA?
Since it is a well established fact that 1) a person has about 75
trillion copies of their nuclear DNA, and 2) mutations routinely
create _different_ unique sets of DNA, and 3) chimerism can result
in people who are a mix of genes, and 4) all this has been explained
to you more than once, the question I have is...
Are you stupid?
No, but I keep trying to inform you, so may be I am.
You keep trying to push your falsehood and lies and I'm not buying.
If I were
smart I would give it up. But one last time:
each cell has a copy of the host DNA,
No such thing as "the host DNA".
each cell
comes *equipped* with homobox genes which communicates which
part of the gene is to be expressed. IOW the eye, kidneys, liver
etc.etc. all have the same set of DNA.
WRONG!
Actually it's you who is wrong.
Not usually and not this time.
If you knew ANYTHING at all you'd know that
the same DNA can create different body parts depending on how that DNA is
used.
Non sequitur. Mutations commonly create new DNA. Multiple mutations
in tumor-suppressant genes are was causes many cancer tumors.
For example.
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Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net
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| User: "Robert Dean" |
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22 Jun 2003 12:05:46 PM |
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"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
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Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
You certainly don't know what you are talking about. Each organism
carries only _ONE_ genetic code (DNA).
Wrong. A given person while have MANY different genetic codes.
Gene
mutation is a commonplace result of environmental toxins and
radiation.
Most such mutations are either corrected or are benign, but some end
up as cancer tumors.
Read the 7/2003 issue of Scientific American for more information.
Mutations alter the DNA.
Correct.
But each person has one and only one
Genome.
You're contradicting yourself. Mutations alter the genome.
Mutations mean that during transcription one or more of the bases in
a codon has been subsituted for another, or a codon is misread by
the ribosome or a anticodon is misplaced or a regulatory gene
calls upon another gene to express for a sixth finger etc.
Thus resulting in a different genome.
But
this happens to the one DNA you have.
Nobody has just one DNA. People have about 100,000,000
copies - one for each cell in the body. Approximately.
There are far more than 100 million cells in a human body.
Each cell contains a copy of the individuals DNA. So what
it boils down to is this: if I were to run ten copies of a message
on this NG would it be ten messages or ten copies of the
same message? Maybe we're saying the same thing, but
different ways
The point is once a mutation occurs in an organism's DNA it
doesn't correct itself. (Otherwise it isn't a mutation)
So you still have only one genetic code modified by some
mutation.
Each cell in a person's body has its own DNA. Modifying one copy
does not affect all of the other copies.
We have some 4 trillion cells each cell has a copy of the
individuals genetic code, but it is the same code.
No, it is not. I just explained why it is not. Didn't read what I
just wrote?
You don't know what you are talking about.
Snicker.
Mutations affect
part or (parts) of the code, not the entire genome.
Well *****, the "entire genome" isn't different between any two
individuals. In fact you'll find chunks of genome that are common
between you and pretty much any animal.
All life on this planet is based upon the same DNA code.
Except for all that life which depends upon RNA.
All life depends upon RNA. But I think you are referring to
organisms which utilize only RNA and has no DNA.
But only a few know examples of organisms which rely solely
upon RNA molecules. These are a few known species of
anaoxysic microbes and the retroviruses. No single multicellicular
organism depends solely upon RNA molecules. Yet all organisms
must have RNA for transcription (tRNA), messenger RNA
(mRNA) etc.
This is
comparable to the alaphabet. It is the way the code is arranged as to
what traits and characteristic are expressed. A genome of a human
and a frog is not the same message. The DNA is instructions for
the next generaion and the information needed to carry out the
living process.
Good. You know the 6th grade version of genetics.
From what I've seen that's more than you have.
--
Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net
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| User: "Pat Winstanley" |
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22 Jun 2003 02:23:38 PM |
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In article <kclJa.9032$al.5569@fe03.atl2.webusenet.com>,
robert_dean@bellsouth.net says...
Nobody has just one DNA. People have about 100,000,000
copies - one for each cell in the body. Approximately.
There are far more than 100 million cells in a human body.
Each cell contains a copy of the individuals DNA. So what
it boils down to is this: if I were to run ten copies of a message
on this NG would it be ten messages or ten copies of the
same message?
Now... onbe or more of those transmissions (copies) becomes slightly
corrupted en-route... think about it!
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| User: "Ray Fischer" |
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22 Jun 2003 12:52:49 PM |
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Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
"Ray Fischer" <rfischer@bolt.sonic.net> wrote in message
Robert Dean <robert_dean@bellsouth.net> wrote:
But each person has one and only one
Genome.
You're contradicting yourself. Mutations alter the genome.
Mutations mean that during transcription one or more of the bases in
a codon has been subsituted for another, or a codon is misread by
the ribosome or a anticodon is misplaced or a regulatory gene
calls upon another gene to express for a sixth finger etc.
Thus resulting in a different genome.
But
this happens to the one DNA you have.
Nobody has just one DNA. People have about 100,000,000
copies - one for each cell in the body. Approximately.
There are far more than 100 million cells in a human body.
75 trillion.
Each cell contains a copy of the individuals DNA.
More or less.
So what
it boils down to is this: if I were to run ten copies of a message
on this NG would it be ten messages or ten copies of the
same message? Maybe we're saying the same thing, but
different ways
But not all the cells in a person's body have the exact same DNA.
Mutations will change the DNA.
This is
comparable to the alaphabet. It is the way the code is arranged as to
what traits and characteristic are expressed. A genome of a human
and a frog is not the same message. The DNA is instructions for
the next generaion and the information needed to carry out the
living process.
Good. You know the 6th grade version of genetics.
From what I've seen that's more than you have.
And yet you still do not grasp that one person may have several
different versions of DNA.
--
Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net
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