# bioinformation

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bioinformation/631653>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 16, 2012, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bioinformation/631653 "2012-08-16T06:44:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bioinformation/631653/21 "2012-08-17T12:34:50Z")

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> [@si\_blakely](#):
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> Claude Debussy once said - “_Music is the space between the notes_” - is life the junk between the genes?
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> But I guess I do agree - some of that junk DNA is probably just junk and provides very little (or no) additional information.

One thing that otherwise even completely useless sequences would provide is space for mutations and other things to do random stuff, which might then end up accidentally transposed, en-bloc into a location where it _does_ do something (good or bad).

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