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Unit 3 Part 2 - Ch 18: Gene Expression Regulation
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Alternative RNA splicing
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- In alternative RNA splicing, different mRNA molecules are produced from the same primary transcript, depending on which RNA segments are treated as exons and which as introns - Alternative RNA splicing can significantly expand the repertoire of a eukaryotic genome - It is a proposed explanation for the surprisingly low number of genes in the human genome
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