# Honestly, Honesty **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 4, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honestly-honesty/665289 "2013-08-04T01:22:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 57
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honestly-honesty/665289/57 "2013-08-11T18:43:42Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > BTW **Colibri** , as he is ignoring you I wonder, is \*\*Honesty \*\*completely off the wall on his post about protein syntheses? It seems to me that he is more on the money but I want to hear a little from a biology expert like you. If you are referring to **Honesty’s** post #12 in this thread, it is quite correct. Most point mutations are either silent (involving redundant codons), affect non-coding parts of the DNA, or cause lethal changes in the protein synthesized. The majority of genetic differences between populations are going to involve such invisible variation, rather than differences that code for proteins. Other genetic differences may result in differences in gene regulation rather than actual changes in the proteins produced. This is not to say that _some_ of the genetic variation between populations doesn’t result in differences in _some_ proteins, but it’s not the predominant kind of variation. At least from that post, **Honesty** knows more about genetics than **brazil84** does, but I think the average raccoon knows more than **brazil84**. Incidentally, **brazil84** can’t put me on ignore because I’m a mod. The downside of this is that I can’t put him on ignore either. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honestly-honesty/665289)._