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9 years ago
The question is:

Arrange these substances from smallest to largest nucleotide, DNA strand, gene, protein, cell, sugar molecule.

My answer was sugar molecule<nucleotide<gene<DNA strand<protein<cell but the answer was sugar molecule<nucleotide<protein<gene<DNA strand<cell.

Why is proteins smaller then genes and DNA strand?

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9 years ago
A gene can be very long (spanning thousands of nucleotides), then spliced and modified before getting translated into a protein. I personally would have thought proteins are larger than genes, given that most proteins consist of multiple polypeptides.
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9 years ago
So bio_man,

You agree that proteins are smaller than DNA, but you think genes are smaller than proteins.
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