Your DNA doesn’t contain as much junk as your teacher says it does!

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New scientific evidence, released this week as the ENCODE project, tells us that our DNA has a lot more information in it than we had previously expected

Listen to my BBC radio chat with Malcolm. We discuss the ENCODE project starting at 47 seconds into this clip:

[audio http://www.brookes.ac.uk/lifesci/runions/DrMolecule/20120911 – ENCODE and a gene for trotting.mp3]

Follow this link for a good GuestBlogged essay on the information contained in DNA.

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