Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome by Nessa Carey
English | Mar 31, 2015 | ISBN: 023117084X | 360 Pages | EPUB/PDF (Converted) | 5 MB
For decades after identifying the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98% of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose.