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I still have an Iris gamerpic that I haven't used. I couldn't ever get my old xboxlive name back and I was saving it for when I did. I don't think I am going to get it, so I probably won't use it for myself if someone wants it.

Don't forget all the theories there have been that there are life forms out there who are able to travel through space on their own. Animals or something that naturally exist in vacume and propel themselves through any number of methods. The Flood probably have a way to travel through space without...

I hope Bungie makes this clearer in the future... If they didn't want it to be canon, it shouldn't have been in the book. Perhaps an updated edition of the book is in order? I do understand the concept of Sarge being a running gag of sorts. Sarge is actually one of my favorite characters in the Hal...

I think in the context of the DNA we've been presented, it refers to CentiMorgan analysis... That is a study two gene's likelihood to recombine at meiosis when they were initially linked. It can roughly be equated to distance along the chromosome, with a higher cM being a larger distance between two...

Ok, it's not that likely that any other species in the universe (flood, covenant, etc) that is not from Earth has DNA. It's as much chance as those specific molecules polymerized to form the code that makes up our genome as anything else. Any other of the variable biological molecular polymers (not ...

To continue the flame war you started, this is not what I said. i said the mutation rate in mitochondrion is higher than in the rest of the genome. This has no bearing on whether more is conserved because of selection; it is simply true. The mitochondrial DNA polymerase is crappy and has lower fide...

This is wrong. Mutation rate in the mitochondrion is much higher than in the rest of the genome, in mammals for sure and probably in most other vertebrates. At any rate I compared this sample sequence against the American Alligator's mitochondrial genome (available here), and it only has 83% simila...

This is just a brief overview how I unlocked server four. I know I wasn't the first to get to it, but I did find it on my own, and I am the first to explain how... Ok, so after reading Thomas Sanatos's newest post at Amazon, I added profvol49@hotmail.com to my MSN account. It turned out to be a bot,...

Sable, I have the book and I kicked myself when you found it and I hadn't even thought of looking at it. I don't think I had opened it's cover since I used it for a modern science philosophy course I took a few years ago.

I feel like "the contender" is us. Maybe we were already being groomed for succession, before this whole Flood mess even came up. Like the Forerunner knew that, like any civilization, eventually they would be destroyed. So they looked at the races that had sprouted up elsewhere in the gal...