Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by saagarjha 426 days ago
Yes. You'll find that plants generally survive better after being irradiated, indicating that a lot of these genes are apparently not important.
1 comments

Large software systems also often have significant chunks of code that is only historical and/or "accidental complexity" and can be removed. But we would typically say that removing it is reducing the system's complexity, rather than that it wasn't complex.
Genes are not maintained by people