Origins: Orphan Genes Puzzle

Cornerstone Television Network

Published on May 7, 2018

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Join Origins host Ray Heiple as he welcomes, Dr. Paul Nelson for, “Orphan Genes Puzzle.” Imagine having to assemble a dictionary of the English language – but every time you open a new book you find words that you've never seen before. Many of the words are unique, found only in that book, and nowhere else. Likewise in genetics, hundreds of thousands of new genes are being discovered by DNA sequencing, and their beginnings are a major puzzle.