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These dormant genes can be reawakened when something goes awry in the development but the information is degraded during the time it remains unused in the genome. | These dormant genes can be reawakened when something goes awry in the development but the information is degraded during the time it remains unused in the genome. | ||
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=Why do all flightless birds have wings ?= | =Why do all flightless birds have wings ?= | ||
Version du 19 avril 2011 à 13:43
What are vestigial organs ?
cf. p.56
Vestigial organs occur because inhertit their anatomy from their ancestors, they are traces of an organism's evolutionary history. Example: ostriches can't fly, but they still use their wings when they run, for balance.
What are atavisms ?
p.56 ss.
Sporadically expressed remnants of ancestral features. Difference with vestigial traits : occur only occasionally. Has to recapitulate an ancestral trait. Come from reexpression of genes that were functional in ancestors but were silenced by natural selection when no longer needed.
These dormant genes can be reawakened when something goes awry in the development but the information is degraded during the time it remains unused in the genome.
Dead genes
Why do all flightless birds have wings ?
cf. p.57
Are vestigial traits useless?
cf. p.58
Why haven't vestigial organs completely disappeared?
cf. p.59
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