A "Hierarchical Organization" = DESIGN
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Psalm 139:14
"Scientists at Caltech may have sounded the final death knell for the “junk DNA” myth.
A new picture begins to emerge of hierarchical organization in the
nucleus. No longer does it look like spaghetti in a basketball. On the
contrary, there are territories and compartments throughout the
interior. Caltech’s work adds to earlier knowledge of nuclear
compartments:
- Nucleolus: contains transcribed ribosomal RNAs and associated processing molecules
- Speckles: contain pre-mRNAs and splicing components
- Transcriptional condensates: contain RNA polymerase II machines and factors
Now, additional hierarchical organization is being found in the
nucleus. In the newly identified territories are found ncRNAs (noncoding
RNAs, not destined for protein) — thousands of them — that are doing
important jobs: guiding regulators into the right territories where
“essential nuclear functions” need to take place." EN&V
