Re: Less genes than expected

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 21:27:04 GMT

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      Hi Jess,
      You wrote,

      I personally expect that many gene doublings had to do with scaling effects
      in development and behavioral shifts during the life of the organism- witness
      the series of hemoglobins- having a series of otherwise identical functional
      units of otherwise identical type but slightly different affinities, which
      can be switched on and off independently makes it easier to "grab" a bigger
      piece of the environmental pie.

      << Do you mean, does this implicate that those doublings do possess
      a different information !? I mean, a different instruction !?
      If it does, does this not mean that those doublings have different pheno-
      physical ' expressions ', express a slightly different kind of behaviour,
      result in a slightly different way of making pots, building arches and why
      we like some people more than others !?
      Just a thought...

      Best,

      Kenneth

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