The Tale of junk DNA
It was in 1972 that a geneticist named Susumu Ohno, was the first to coin the term “junk” DNA.He referred to it as defunct relatives of known genes and called them “generic fossils” due to evolutionary presuppositions. As it was assumed that this non coding, junk DNA was merely an accumulation over the course of evolution and was not needed now ,it would be under least selective pressure and be the easiest site of mutations. Unfortunately for many years this notion that non-coding DNA was not functional (“junk”) actually inhibited further studies on it. It was then in 2010, The ENCODE Pilot Project was released. It studied the 1% of the human genome or approximately 30 million bases spread throughout the genome. The proteins are constituted using the coding and regulatory regions in the DNA.These proteins then express particular characteristics in an organism. The regulatory regions are responsible for exercising control over the production of amount ,activity of the protein. Lo