New genes can arise from nothing

ScienceDaily
Dec 8, 2023, 1:30 pm93 pts
The complexity of living organisms is encoded within their genes, but where do these genes come from? Researchers resolved outstanding questions regarding the origin of small regulatory genes, and described a mechanism that creates their DNA palindromes. Under suitable circumstances, these palindromes evolve…

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