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> >>The genome is an entity capable of looking to the future?
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> > Interestingly, the answer is yes.
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> You mean some mutations, some recombinations, some translocations
> and some chromosomal rearrangements are more probable than others
> as a result of a genomic memory of what worked in the past?
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This is the case. For instance proteins are organised into functional
domains separated by introns. A domain might be a membrane spanning segment,
or a binding site, or at least something functional. When evolution causes
changes, the domains are shuffled. It is like the difference between
shifting all the furniture in your living room around at random, and
breaking it up into sticks and throwing them about at random. With the first
case you've got a decent chance that the sofa will end up facing  the telly
and the coffee table will be the right way up and you have something
liveable. With the second case the chance of the sticks falling in the
pattern of an armchair is negligible. Many proteins seem to use the first
model, evolution for evolution.
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