So having high blood sugar doesnât mean that you ate a lot of table sugar and the sugar is now in your bloodstream; it means you ate a lot of carbohydrates (from any source) and the sugar (glucose) is now in your bloodstream. Any digestible carbohydrate can raise blood sugar, although some raise it higher and faster than others.
If a mutation alters junk DNA, it doesnât do any harm because the junk isnât doing us any good to begin with. If our genome was 80 percent functionalâthe figure batted around when the ENCODE project results first came outâthen we should be extinct.
DNA Damage and PreCR. DNA is susceptible to many types of damage resulting from exposure to a variety of chemical or environmental reagents, manipulation or simply aging. The table below lists some possible DNA samples and the impact of the damage they may undergo. Note: The extent of damage caused by exposure to different reagents can vary and its importance will depend on how the DNA is being used.