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Furrypocketpussy t1_iv49sjr wrote

Reply to comment by BioTechproject in How does the expression of DNA change during puberty? by spudfolio

Your DNA does not change a lot, this is wrong. While your DNA undergoes many mutations, the overall "code" remains essentially the same

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BioTechproject t1_iv85339 wrote

Yes, those mutations are the change? Also the DNA becomes more and more susceptible to harmful mutations, which is a part of aging, that's why I would not necessarily call it the same.

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Furrypocketpussy t1_ivbi386 wrote

Those mutations are not significant in the grand scheme. While they accumulate over ones life and proteins will be changed here and there, you have 22,000 genes. We would have some crazy changes as we aged if the DNA was significantly changing

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