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> From: 	Slawomir Szczyrba[SMTP:steev@friko.onet.pl]
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> Sent: 	25 kwietnia 1998 19:53
> To: 	sf-f@uci.agh.edu.pl
> Subject: 	Re: X i podwojna helisa.
> 
> Andrzej Jarzabek wrote in message 
> >> 
> >> Sadzac z rysunku dziewczyny, to informacje byly przekazywane
> >> w postaci 'czystej', bez kodowania...
> >
> >Musialy byc kodowane bo DNA to nie jest sekwencja bitow czy bajtow.
> >
> 
> Za duzy skrot myslowy. Mialem napisac 'bez kompresji'.
> I wydaje mi sie, ze zapis DNA mozna przedstawic jako sekwencje 
> bajtow. Jak wszystko...
> 
Przepraszam nie moglem sie powstrzymac:
Dobrej zabawy!

For many years molecular biologists have been mystified by the fact that
very little of an organism's DNA seems to serve any useful function.

I have solved the mystery.

The reason  why only 30%  of human DNA  performs any useful  function is
that the rest of it is comments.

Once we decode a typical human genome, we see that the contents begin as
follows:


    ===
   /* HUMAN_DNA.H
    *
    * Human Genome
    * Version 2.1
    *
    * (C) God
    */

   /* Revision history:
    *
    * 0000-00-01 00:00  1.0  Adam.
    * 0000-00-02 10:00  1.1  Eve.
    * 0000-00-03 02:11  1.2  Added penis code to male version. A bit
messy --
    *                        will require a rewrite later on to make it
neater.
    * 0017-03-12 03:14  1.3  Added extra sex drive to male.h; took code
from
    *                        elephant-dna.c
    * 0145-10-03 16:33  1.4  Removed tail.
    * 1115-00-31 17:20  1.5  Shortened forearms, expanded brain case.
    * 2091-08-20 13:56  1.6  Opposable thumbs added to hand() routine.
    * 2501-04-09 14:04  1.7  Minor cosmetic improvements -- skin colour
made
    *                        darker to match my own image.
    * 2909-07-12 02:21  1.8  Dentition inadequate; added extra 'wisdom'
teeth.
    *                        Must remember to make mouth bigger to
compensate.
    * 4501-12-31 14:18  1.9  Increase average height.
    * 5533-02-12 17:09  2.0  Added gay option, triggered by high
population
    *                        density, to try and slow the overpopulation
    *                        problem.
    * 6004-11-04 16:11  2.1  Made forefinger narrower to fit hole in
centre of
    *                        CD.
    */

   /* Standard definitions
    */

   #define SEX male
   #define HEIGHT 1.84
   #define MASS 68
   #define RACE caucasian

   /* Include inherited traits from parent DNA files.
    *
    * Files must be pre-processed with MENDEL program to provide proper
    * inheritance features.
    */

   #include "mother.h"
   #include "father.h"

   #infndef FATHER
   #warn("Father unknown -- guessing\n")
   #include "bastard.h"
   #endif

   /* Set up sex-specific functions and variables
    */
   #include

   /* Kludged code -- I'll re-design this lot and re-write it as a
proper
    * library sometime soon.
    */
   struct genitals
      {
   #ifdef MALE
      Penis *jt;
   #endif
      /* G_spot *g;   Removed for debugging purposes */
   #ifdef FEMALE
      Vagina *p;
   #endif
      }

   /* Initialization bootstrap routine -- called before DNA duplication.
    * Allocates buffers and sets up protein file pointers
    */
   DNA *zygote_initialize(Sperm *, Ovum *);

   /* MAIN INITIALIZATION CODE
    *
    * Returns structures containing pre-processed phenotypes for the
organism
    * to display at birth.
    *
    * Will be improved later to make output less ugly.
    */
   Characteristic *lookup_phenotype(Identifier *i);
   ===

   ...and so on.

   [ Note that God uses two-space tabs ]

Konrad R. Wagrowski