Nobody's claiming that the genome is "done".
You haven't looked at a basic molbio textbook recently, have you? Some genetic information we know a lot about. Some we know very little about.
You said we have no idea what activates genes. Wrong. What are the triggers to gene activation and expression? There are many. Look up mechanisms
for signal cascades due to things called "hormones". Look up "protein kinase C". Etc.
Where's the processing? Genes get transcribed in the nucleus. The mRNA (as a for instance) gets processed and then transported to the cytosol, then translated to proteins.
How does it all work? We're well on our way to understanding that. The elucidation of the genetic code is just the first step. We have the Rosetta stone elements of the expressed genes on one side, and the genome just published on the other. There'll be plenty of surprises for years to come as we fill in the missing pieces, but we are NOWHERE near as backward as the picture you painted in your posting.
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Nobody's claiming that the genome is "done". You haven't looked at a basic molbio textbook recently, have you? Some genetic information we know a lot about. Some we know very little about. You said we have no idea what activates genes. Wrong. What are the triggers to gene activation and expression? There are many. Look up mechanisms for signal cascades due to things called "hormones". Look up "protein kinase C". Etc. Where's the processing? Genes get transcribed in the nucleus. The mRNA (as a for instance) gets processed and then transported to the cytosol, then translated to proteins. How does it all work? We're well on our way to understanding that. The elucidation of the genetic code is just the first step. We have the Rosetta stone elements of the expressed genes on one side, and the genome just published on the other. There'll be plenty of surprises for years to come as we fill in the missing pieces, but we are NOWHERE near as backward as the picture you painted in your posting.