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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

What does that even mean, you have like “four letters” and dna strands of millions long. Like how selective do you have to be. I’m sure you can basically write anything that way.

Are there entire chunks that are inactive that would give feathers, that at some point gave feathers to our ancestors?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

All things DNA is full of code that doesn't get activated and is just passed on anyways

Gene expression is what they mean by "activated"

Basically think of it like having a library of instruction books and only grabbing a few of them to do the project that needs done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I recall that scientists reactivated chicken genes for teeth and grew a toothed chook