Proteins are components of every cell. How they have changed in the course of evolution for the purpose of taking on new functions in the body, has long been a subject of research. The fact that proteins can emerge practically out of nothing—out of a new DNA structure emerging at random, in previously non-coding parts of the genome—has only been established relatively recently and has not been the object of much investigation in comparison with the “traditional” evolutionary processes.
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