So having high blood sugar doesnât mean that you ate a lot of table sugar and the sugar is now in your bloodstream; it means you ate a lot of carbohydrates (from any source) and the sugar (glucose) is now in your bloodstream. Any digestible carbohydrate can raise blood sugar, although some raise it higher and faster than others.
If a mutation alters junk DNA, it doesnât do any harm because the junk isnât doing us any good to begin with. If our genome was 80 percent functionalâthe figure batted around when the ENCODE project results first came outâthen we should be extinct.
Shirin is talking rubbish. Prions and viruses are not living, so his point is irrelevant. All living substances use DNA. The only reason the term genetic material is usd, is because we use mRNA to carry the DNA message, and viruses also use mRNA as their genetic material.