Adveser wrote:
traptunderice wrote:
Adveser wrote:
Can you please explain how we got Alien DNA?
Can you please explain how you came to the conclusion that we have alien DNA? What constitutes something as alien in terms of DNA? Variation is what makes DNA what is.
They can trace back the evolutionary roots of every single living thing on the planet, except a portion of our DNA that in no way resembles the other data and can't be traced to anything. Again, some scientists have said this was some virus that altered our DNA or we took on some of the content of a germ or bacteria, except there is no evidence of a rouge microbe being able to do this nor have they found it. It's a theory based on "we don't have anything else."
It makes it alien because people that have investigated it have come to the conclusion that the DNA is unlike anything else, that it must have come from a fork in evolution that must have developed elsewhere. It looks like something cut and pasted it into our DNA.
My understanding of genetics is that variation results from random mutations. Evolution is caused by random genes being warped through exposure to radiation from the sun. How is this portion you're claiming as unique, and hence alien, not simply a result of that?
As for the variation chunk that you call alien, we share 99.4% of our DNA with chimps so that other 0.6% could easily be a discrepancy from our ancestors developed through a closed circle of breeding over millions of years. Is that 0.6% what you call alien?
cry of the banshee wrote:
traptunderice wrote:
Adveser wrote:
Can you please explain how we got Alien DNA?
Can you please explain how you came to the conclusion that we have alien DNA? What constitutes something as alien in terms of DNA? Variation is what makes DNA what is.
Beat me to it... I was going to post just this when I read that.
Weird being on the same wavelength.
Hahaha.