pumpkins

Its very late at night for me and I'm quite tired. If I'm understanding what the auther was suggesting, original strands of DNA contained twelve (12) strands of .. complement DNA? Is that what youre suggesting?
Several implications exist with this idea. A load, actually, but I'll focus on a few of the most obvious.
First, the hinderance involved with a twelve stranded code of DNA would be an unlikely candidate. Near impossible really. It would require a completely new set of ribosomes, histone proteins, energy requirements, transport proteins, polymerases.. the list goes on. I cannot predict the dimensional formations of this twelve stranded dna molecule, but it would most likely be a tightly woven mesh of genetic code extremely inaccessible for transcription and/or replication.
While this idea presented sounds nice, it has no foundation in reality. If a point wanted to be made about 'junk' dna coming to life in these indigo children, there junk dna would contain start/stop codons, inhibitors, a few motifs maybe a zinc finger or two... none of this is the case.
Before I conclude this I would like to add holy hell I'm tired, but also this: dna is dna. if DNA was contained in an anti-parallel arrangement(as it is), information for your proposed indigo children would consume as many bases in the normal B form as your 12 stranded conformation. The information will always be there. Tweet