{"id":129248,"date":"2021-10-20T02:25:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T09:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/so-called-junk-dna-genetic-dark-matter-is-actually-critical-to-survival-in-mammals"},"modified":"2021-10-20T02:25:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T09:25:12","slug":"so-called-junk-dna-genetic-dark-matter-is-actually-critical-to-survival-in-mammals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/so-called-junk-dna-genetic-dark-matter-is-actually-critical-to-survival-in-mammals","title":{"rendered":"So-Called Junk DNA \u2014 Genetic \u201cDark Matter\u201d \u2014 Is Actually Critical to Survival in Mammals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/so-called-junk-dna-genetic-dark-matter-is-actually-critical-to-survival-in-mammals.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Knocking out transposon promoter leads to pup death in mice; similar promoters found in many mammals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of our DNA<\/p>\n<p>DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms that carries genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction. Nearly every cell in a person\u2019s body has the same DNA. Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria (where it is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knocking out transposon promoter leads to pup death in mice; similar promoters found in many mammals. Nearly half of our DNA DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}