danielravennest t1_ir9ws4q wrote
Reply to comment by mrsmoose123 in Mitochondrial DNA Is Working Its Way Into the Human Genome by molrose96
> it baffles me how we know which proteins do what.
Mice have 85% of the same DNA as we do. So-called "knockout mice" have bits of DNA removed, then they see what problem removing it causes.
The other approach is finding an antigen that blocks the particular protein, then see what happens.
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