Chapter 21, Problem 3TYU

Summary Introduction

To examine: The processes that most likely contributed in the formation of two eukaryotic proteins having one common domain but are otherwise very different.

Introduction:

Exon shuffling is a process of mixing and matching of different exons due to errors in meiotic recombination. This can occur either within a gene or between non-allelic genes. This lead to the formation of a new protein with novel functions.