4B. The number of unique human proteins is not the same as the number of genes in the human genome. Give two reasons for this observation.
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During this process, different combinations of exons (the coding regions of the RNA) can be included or excluded from the final messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule. This means that a single gene can give rise to multiple mRNA variants, each of which can be translated Show more…
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