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Never mind that 1) UFC only aired on pay-per-view, so children could not see it unless their parents paid for it; and 2) the same cable outfits carried boxing matches, R and NC-17 movies, and professional wrestling shows far more violent than UFC.
The most parsimonious explanation to be drawn from candidates with no significant matches to any metazoan genes is that they arose by horizontal gene transfer from a non-metazoan pool, as opposed to multiple independent gene losses in the metazoan lineages.
Genes with matches in the "A" range are true homologs, while those in the "B" range are likely related and those in the "C" range require visual validation of the level of identity in order to ensure a true match.
When a nation's best-educated citizens and professional wordsmiths can unblushingly commit blunders such as these, is it any wonder that public discourse so often degenerates into slanging matches and the bitter exchange of empty slogans?
' ") No pesky blanks to fill in, no messy matches to, erm, match.