Word: dna
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...much of the anti-gay legal and social argument is based on the premise that it is a learned behavior and an immoral choice. This would prove them wrong! That feeling lasted about a minute and a half. The notion that Pat Robertson might look at a chart of DNA and say, "Well, I'll be; I've been wrong all this time. I'd better send an apology, maybe a small gift to Larry Kramer . . ." is absurd. Indeed, conservatives have already come forward with their own interpretations of the new findings; a representative of the Family Research Council compared...
Sure enough, a separate study of the DNA from 40 pairs of homosexual brothers found that 33 pairs shared five different patches of genetic material grouped around a particular area on the X chromosome. Why is that unusual? Because the genes on a son's X chromosome are a highly variable combination of the genes on the mother's two X's, and thus the sequence of genes varies greatly from one brother to another. Statistically, so much overlap between brothers who also share a sexual orientation is unlikely to be just coincidence. The fact that...
British and Russian forensic scientists have determined beyond all doubt that bones discovered two years ago at Ekaterinburg in the Urals are those of Czar Nicholas II and his family, murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918. DNA from the remains was compared with that of samples taken later from Romanov descendants -- among them Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The tests shed no light, however, on the fates of the young Prince Alexei and Princess Anastasia, who may have survived the execution...
...DNA test frees alleged killer from a life sentence...
...fanciful premise of Jurassic Park -- that DNA could be recovered from fossils and cloned to create live dinosaurs -- has already turned into partial truth. Jack Horner, the paleontologist who advised Steven Spielberg on the movie, thinks he has found red blood cells in a chunk of Tyrannosaurus bone, and extractable DNA might be inside them. The cloning part is still fantasy, but the DNA could be used to test the theory that dinosaurs and birds are closely related...