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geoffrey

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on: Aug 12, 2013
The total number of genes in a species' genome is not necessarily a good indicator of biological complexity because
A) most genes are never turned on.
B) many genes are repeats.
C) this does not take into account the alternative splicing of pre-mRNA.
D) this does not take into account mRNA-mRNA interactions.
E) this does not take into account protein-mRNA interactions.


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Reply #1 on: Sep 2, 2013
Most likely C, we did this yesterday.


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