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by D-Coder 447 days ago
"Everything in biology is more complicated than it looks."

DNA is where we get our physical attributes (modulo environment).

No, a lot of DNA is "junk," i.e. we don't yet understand what it does.

No, a lot of functional DNA is turned on or off by the epigenome.

No, a lot of our metabolism is affected by our biome — thousand of species of bacteria that turn up or down various reactions, or produce other chemicals that we need...