Re: 'Directed' evolution?

Arthur V. Chadwick (chadwicka@swau.edu)
Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:28:49 -0700

At 09:52 AM 9/23/98 -0500, Steve wrote:
>At 11:40 AM 9/22/98 -0500, Ron Chitwood wrote:
>>"...Among all the mutations that have been studied, there aren't any known,
>>clear, examples of a mutation that has added information."
>
>This is just wrong. One example is the immune system. Developing
>lymphocytes under go mutation of their antigen receptor genes which imparts
>the ability to recognize new antigens.

Is this heredible??? It is a designed in system which contains the
ifnormation necessary to splice together existing information in diffeerent
ways. That is hardly what anyone has in mind for an increase in
information, and you know that, if you reflected on what you wrote.
Art
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