Anatomy & Physiology: The Unity of Form and Function
Anatomy & Physiology: The Unity of Form and Function
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ISBN: 9781259277726
Author: Kenneth S. Saladin Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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How alternative splicing partially explains the diversity of human protein that exceeds the number of human genes.

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DNA is a genetic material consisting of a long stretch of nucleotide sequences with 2 m length. It carries genetic information from one generation to the next. Complete list of DNA sequence is known as a genome, which includes coding and non-coding regions of DNA. Gene is defined as a segment of DNA that codes for mRNA, and protein is synthesized from the mRNA sequence. The total human genome consists of about 3.1 billion base pairs with 20,000 protein coding genes. The average length of a single gene is nearly 3000 base pairs size, and it may go up to 2.4 million.

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Anatomy & Physiology: The Unity of Form and Function

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