User:Federico Castro M/Undeveloped Ideas

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  3. The problem with antibiotic resistance and VIH drug resistance are evolutive problems. We could deal with the problem with an evolutionary approach; we should lead the bacteria or viruses to an isolated peak of adaptation and then submerge that peak.
  5. Promoters surely have different rate of change than the ORF they control. Do ORF evolve faster than promoters or viceverza? My guess is that changes in the promoters and not in the ORF account for the major differences betwen organisms… the activity of promoters makes up for the differences between a caterpillar and a butterfly and might also be accounted for differences between humans and chimpanzees.
  6. Where did coat proteins of virus come from? How did they evolved? Are they ancient? They seem perfectly fit for protect DNA and their ancestors (or at leas similar analogous genes) might have served the same function eons ago.
  9. The homeotic genes have been extensively studied in plants and animals (MADS, Homeobox)... what about fungi and algae? Does regulatory genes have something in common? Could we isolate tose genes and insert them in bacteria?
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