RE: Secrets of a Salty Survivor

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Jaro,

Thanks for the correction.  I careless misreading on

my part.  



However, I would still like to know how such studies

will help humans.  Our DNA is not organized in the

same manner.  If such survival mechanisms were useful

for other species, they would have them as well as the

Halobacterium or Radiodurans organisms.  I would say

what they represent are adapations to harsh

environments.  Higher organisms evolved to survive in

different environments, and did not need this survival

mechanisms.



--- Jaro <jaro-10kbq@sympatico.ca> wrote:



> -----Original Message-----

> 

> It totally escapes me how studying the DNA of

> Halobacterium will help

> humans.  Their DNA is not organized at all like

> those of higher life forms.

> If I remember correctly, there are five copies of

> the DNA stands for

> redundancy.

> <><><><><><><><><><><><>

> 

> 

> John, I think you may be confusing Halobacterium

> with the Radiodurans bug...

> 

> 

> Jaro

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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

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