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		dmoy on July 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into liv... Right I'm no biologist, but my understanding is that there's vast amount of dna that doesn't really do anything (doesn't encode any proteins). I don't remember why... maybe it used to do stuff a long time ago.

progval on July 13, 2017 [–]

You are thinking of introns. Their function is still not very well-known. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intron#Biological_functions_an...

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