>>12071063Well yeah. If the genome looks engineered, it is.
Our genomes (and all other animals) are entirely messy, lots of errors, lots of redundancy for those errors, half-functioning proteins, HUGE amount of copied pieces of DNA that don't do shit/aren't functional (and I'm not talking about generic junk DNA), some proteins just seem to exist as copies of another that are truncated and may not even have an important function (?), etc
When we engineer plasmids, its super different. We have restriction sites inserted to make it easy to clone (think "excess DNA" that are access points, so you can insert/delete DNA between two of these "access points"), the DNA is completely streamlined without errors, we have different selection genes for resistant, we have tags that make it easy to purify the protein, etc
Basically there would be a lot of DNA that serve the purpose of "making it easy to switch out other bits of DNA easily" and everything would look perfect. We sometimes barcode genomes, so you could imagine there would be DNA "tags"/barcodes that would give information about the creature (type, lot number, purpose, etc) when sequenced
