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    4 days ago

    If that’s how DNA worked, I imagine it just wouldn’t pair, but that’s not how DNA works. However there can be and are many mistakes in the transcription and translation of genes, they’re called mutations and they’re the mechanical cause of cancer. The kind of spontaneous mutation your imagining is unlikely to lead to cancer without other contributing factors, and the body has numerous control and correction mecahnisms, but there are billions of base pairs (i.e. A—T is one base pair) in each cell of the body getting transcribed and translated over and over and over, so quite a few mistakes get through.





  • I know Internet forums can be hard to figure out, they’ve only been around for like 4 or 5 decades. See how your name is “clinicallydepressedpoochie”? My name is not. And it’s also not the name of the person who said that. Different people have different names, this is reflected textually within the forum format so you can just look at the name above the comment your looking at to see who posted that comment. Anything else I need to explain?