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9 years ago Edited: 9 years ago, bio_man
The human genome seems to be too short for the number of proteins that can be synthesized (greater than 100,000 different proteins). Why does this number differ? How does the human system get around this discrepancy?
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9 years ago
One gene can form multiple different types of polypeptides due to alternative splicing.
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