alt Hacker News> Interestingly, a massive 62 percent of the genome consists of repetitive elements, stretches of DNA that repeat over and over, inflating its size without adding new coding sequences.
Sounds like a lot of codebases I've looked at.
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greenbit • yesterday at 12:37 PM
Ahh but the productivity metrics were so healthy!
Obligatory note that non-coding DNA sequences are often involved in expression regulation, DNA folding, and other interactions which aren't yet well understood. Just because a section of DNA does not encode a protein does not mean it's inactive in other life processes.