A Darwinist was bugging a friend to provide peer-reviewed literature about the three-dimensional arrangement of chromosomes (the c-nome), that affects genetics. That Darwinist favours a one-dimensional arrangement (surprise, surprise).
He needs to get out more. From Jonathan Wells’ The Myth of Junk DNA (p. 79):
Between cell divisions, chromosomes are not randomly distributed in the nucleus. Instead, they occupy distinct domains [79-82] that affect gene regulation‹in part, by bringing together specific regions of the chromosomes and facilitating interactions among them. [83-88] Different cell and tissue types in the same animal can have different three-dimensional patterns of chromosomes in their nuclei, which account for at least some differences in gene expression. [89-90]
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