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.
But does it meet the definition of a junk car? Junk Car Medics can diagnose whether or not your car is at the end of its life. If so, we can ease the loss with some quick cash. In the broadest terms, the definition of a junk car is an unwanted car. It doesnât run, and it really has no use. (Except, perhaps, to the squirrels who have taken up residence in it.)