The Importance of Junk DNA
Wild Card's progress: fully-fledged
The source of this Wild Card:
Scientific American. December 2010. 10 World Changing Ideas.
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2050+
Wild Card's description
Genes make up only about 2 % of the human genome. The rest was for many years ignored as “junk DNA”. This space is an incredibly important part of the genetic code, home to a vast unexamined treasure trove of information that controls how genes behave. Biologists continue to be surprised by what was once dismissed as wasted space.
