The Important Role of Non-Coding “JUNK” DNA
Historically, the majority of the genome, which is not directly related to the triplet code, has been called “junk”. This is absolutely wrong. In 2004 it was confirmed [Shabalina, Spiridonov, 2004]. This work “The mammalian transcriptome and the function of noncoding DNA sequences. Genome Biology” clearly proves the important function of the so-called Junk DNA. […]