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Not to start a flame war here, but mtDNA is much more highly conserved than chromosomal DNA. We use mtDNA to tell the relationships of vastly different species when a traditional chromosomal analysis would be completely irrelevant. You have to understand that the bulk of the Eukaryotic genome is ac...

The genetic code we were given was for the Chinese Alligator's mitochondria , correct? If I'm not mistaken, mitochondrial DNA doesn't change very quickly... has anyone tried checking this code against human mitochondrial DNA? The message was definately intended for a human audience, whatever that m...

to be fair, the flood aren't as versatile a lifeform as humans, being parasites. At least we have independence in reproduction. i do disagree with the idea of silicon based life, but if it's in the halo novels, it's halo canon. As a parasite, the flood is incredibly versatile. It can infect and con...

i recall reading in either one of the halo novels or something that the flood was silicone based, not carbon, if that helps at all...course, i could be wrong and just imagined that, but w/e Boo. Boo, if they are. Silicon (not silicone, that's the stuff that goes into breast implants) is way more ab...

Uh, or isn't it much more likely that the person who first found this particular Alligator mitochondrion sequence happened to match it against a different sample, not the one that the gamemakers used to build sample10000101.txt? Then these differences mean nothing. Were the gamemakers really counti...

Did some thinking... The volman book led us to the fact that he was doing research on what is known as "the missing link" or how we as humans became what we are... (i dont like bungie getting all existential on us) Wait - a game where the entire galaxy is being threatened with annihilatio...

There is one specific codon that is kinda freaking me out.... TAATAA Apperantly, this codon is responsible for mutations that can result in pneumonia, drycoughs, lung lesions and heart failure. Does anybody know symptoms of Flood Infection? ps. please, no sarcastic comments. What the heck are you t...

Yeah, there are a handful of differences between the sample and the alligator genome in the NCBI database. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genome&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=16824 There are exactly 32 points where the sequences differ. Normally this wouldn't be that odd, but...

read through a bunch of info and no one pointed this out yet. the numbers on the page start at 1 and increase +60 every break. between every number is 60 characters. character counter? -squirrel- This is the standard way genomes are presented. Blocks of ten, 60 characters per line. Nothing unusual ...

Well here is the link: Http://www.archaeology.cornell.edu/faculty/thomas_volman.html Any thoughts? Volman seems to be a real person, records all over the website going a few years back showing he is part of cornell. It just seems to be coincidence. This is almost certainly the case. PLEASE, PLEASE ...