In a metric space, the notion of distance indicates how close one point is from another. Is there an analogous notion of "distance” in DNA space that indicates how close a given species is from another?
Moorad Alexanian
Department of Physics
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
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From: gordon brown [mailto:gbrown@euclid.colorado.edu]
Sent: Tue 3/26/2002 3:55 PM
To: Collins, Francis (NHGRI)
Cc: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: RE: GENETICS
Dr. Collins,
I hope this question is not too vague. (It is far removed from my field.)
I seem to recall having read somewhere that at least some of what has been
considered to be superfluous junk DNA may turn out to have a useful
function. Can you comment on this?
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
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