Re: orthography and pronunciation
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 17, 2001, 20:01 |
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Christophe wrote:
>Hehehe... Maybe the junk-DNA of all species on Earth is in fact coded
>information from an advanced civilization :))) (didn't Star Trek: TNG use
>this
>idea in one of its episodes?)
No idea on the Star Trek question, but apparently there was a quite serious
project ca -90 that sought for messages from aliens in the junk-DNA of
certain bacteria. Evidently, they didn't find anything ...
Andreas
PS Is there no abbrev for "junk-DNA"? When we've got things like tRNA and
mRNA, why not jDNA?
PS OK, it's because vocalic "d" is unpronounceable ... ;-)
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