Junk DNA and why I hate this term.

Here’s a recent headline from Scientific American, Jumping ‘Junk’ DNA May Fuel Mammalian Evolution. I would like to take a moment and rant about one of my (many) pet peeves with, well, I’m not sure. Sometimes its the media sometimes its members of the scientific community.
I really don’t like the term “Junk DNA” and I’ve never [...]