Posted: Sep 20, 2011 1:25 pm
Brunitski wrote:Atheistoclast wrote:Brunitski wrote:
Fuuuuuuck!
You hit every branch of the stupid tree when you fell out of it didn't you? Are you seriously going to say what you just said ON THIS FORUM, with out even googling?
Hox gene much?
Far. fucking. out.
It seems I have really upset the atheists this time! Hox genes work by activating (switching on) the genes required at developmental stages by binding to transcriptional regulatory regions - they don't encode the form of segment structures. Moreover, they are among the most conserved families in the genome such that they can be swapped between species in transgenesis experiments. As such, they don't explain the morphological differences between taxa.
Upset?! I don't know about anyone else, but the only thing you have induced in me is pantwetting!
Something like that.