Much of our genome has no apparent purpose. Is it so-called “junk DNA” or do we simply not understand it? (Credit: ktsdesign/Shutterstock)

Would
you purchase a book with over 98 percent of the text written in gibberish?
Biology has no business in the book industry, yet it still writes a pretty
fascinating guidebook: DNA. Our genetic manual holds the instructions for the proteins
that make up and power our bodies. But less than 2 percent of our DNA actually
codes for them.

The
rest — 98.5