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zeristor on Oct 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’...

Do you mean “Junk DNA” is a junk term?

At least until it gets repurposed.

Apologies for getting too meta.

TeMPOraL on Oct 24, 2022 [–]

> Do you mean “Junk DNA” is a junk term?

Junk gene is a junk meme? Yeah, that's about right.

> At least until it gets repurposed.

Like all memes do. And genes, for that matter.

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