lncRNAs might function as barcodes for identifying genomic addresses for maintaining cellular states
http://www.lncrnablog.com/lncrnas-might-function-as-barcodes-for-identifying-genomic-addresses-for-maintaining-cellular-states/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetworkMy comment: Barcoding and addressing system together point to Intelligent design and Creation. The role of lncRNAs is very important especially during embryonic development, when lncRNAs transmit the necessary information for the cellular differentiation procedure. There are over a hundred of different types of epigenetic markers that these long non coding RNA molecules carry for establishing the histone coding system, a biological database which determines almost all traits of an organism.
For the theory of evolution these lncRNAs are very truth revealing molecules. For example, the similarity of human/pig lncRNA transcripts is 57% as the corresponding number between humans and chimps is only 29.8%.
"Finally, a large number of pig lncRNAs appeared to have human homologs (57% of total identified lncRNAs) illustrating the similarities between humans and pigs at the genome level."
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-0880-9
"The learned transcript similarity threshold for each pair of comparing species varied as a function of distance between species: the empirical threshold for calling a significant human-chimp alignment was 29.8 % sequence similarity."