How Much Junk Is in Your DNA Trunk?
The human genome is 3.2 billion base pairs long and contains around 20,000 genes, but how much of that is garbage? Hosted by: Hank Green Head to https://scishowfinds.com/ for hand selected artifacts of the universe! ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, Tim Curwick, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/basics/noncodingdna https://www.newscientist.com/article/2140926-at-least-75-per-cent-of-our-dna-really-is-useless-junk-after-all/ https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/9/7/1880/3952726 http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004525 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4014423/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2014/05/09/the-case-for-junk-dna/ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/magazine/is-most-of-our-dna-garbage.html?_r=2 http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/09/fighting-about-encode-and-junk.html https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11247.epdf?referrer_access_token=-oIaEqcMlO-8El4OQnjfGtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PRZB2AK6JQcl4sWXAzAe1sS0BaH6VKRaD3DHi4SCJXRyAWvZossasULHYNxEBpm1GOr7fr1Bz43s9TOcHqePiEGTnYDH1Zsl51UjgZDKqXylkidppHjwO8wDozG5iobY5uTPmX4UtDFIR4U51ayduQ6RDDXdxU_U1CPzl69dhkQmwKzTYln4quAlhdGRsbtwk6S3VfvTWYqHuRLBxMw6MF&tracking_referrer=blogs.nature.com http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/09/05/encode-the-rough-guide-to-the-human-genome/ http://www.genetics.org/content/186/4/1085.short https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(14)00523-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1097276514005231%3Fshowall%3Dtrue https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2015.00328/full http://mcb.asm.org/content/32/24/4892.full https://biologydictionary.net/intron/ https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/genetic-drift-and-effective-population-size-772523 https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/transposons-the-jumping-genes-518
