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A little evolution for everyone!
Ulciscor:
I was just assuming that a bot with more pointless additions to its genome would be less likely to survive that a bot with a long but more streamlined genome.
PurpleYouko:
Possibly but I don't think so.
Right now I am still trying to determine if DNA length has any effect whatsoever on the "fitness" of a robot. I strongly suspect that pointless "junk" DNA has absolutely no effect at all
Greven:
PY this is a very important one! Whatever junk DNA has an influence on the overall fitness of the bot! Because it shouldnt have, but if it has then it is a bug or it is not junk DNA :P
Greven:
But then again, in reallife we do still not understand the concept of junk DNA entirely, it seems to have no function whatsoever, but it actually may have some influence on the execution and translation on the DNA... (or so I think I have read!!??)
Ulciscor:
I think junk DNA is important because sometimes parts of it copy themselves bang in the middle of a useful sequence, causing really big mutations. I think viruses do something similar. I seem to recall hearing the phrase 'jumping genes'...
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