Word: dna
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...Attorney General--both leading roles in the war on terror. Gonzales, who declined to discuss who he thinks should succeed Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, spoke last week with TIME's Viveca Novak and others in the Washington bureau about detainee abuse, DNA testing and being attacked by fellow conservatives...
...SQUARE THE GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS OVER THE YEARS TO LIMIT ENDLESS APPEALS BY DEATH-ROW INMATES WITH THE POSSIBILITY THAT DNA TESTING CAN CLEAR SOMEONE'S NAME AT THE 11TH HOUR? No one should be executed who's innocent--bottom line. But if additional delays are possible through DNA testing, that would be something I would worry about. We ought to be able to work out a system where you can take advantage of DNA testing but it wouldn't unduly delay the administration of justice...
...project, titled The Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium, involved 67 scientists from five countries. It found 40 million DNA base pair differences in the two genetic codes that resulted from either random mutations or complete insertions and deletions of DNA. However, researchers said many of these differences may have no function...
This relatively low number of significant variations, which have occurred since chimps and humans evolved from a common ancestor six million years ago, leaves almost 99 percent of human DNA identical to the chimp genome...
While the sequencing of chimpanzee DNA is an important first step, researchers must sift through more data in order to pinpoint which genetic differences explain the particular biological functions unique to chimps and humans...