protein-coding gene
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gene
noun[C]
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a part of the DNA in a cell that controls the physical development, behaviour, etc. of an individual plant or animal and is passed on from ...
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These data are summarized, before focusing in more detail on polymorphisms within protein-coding genes of potential relevance to the host-parasite relationship, such as vaccine candidates.
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Transposable elements are found in a large number of human protein-coding genes.
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A typicalprotein-codinggenein humans might be divided into a dozen exons, each less than two hundred base pairs in length, and some as short as twenty to thirty.
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For both protein-coding genes, third codon (synonymous) positions were removed prior to analysis as these sites were found to be saturated.
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As a scientific achievement, unraveling the 30,000 to 40,000 protein-coding genes in the human genome has been compared with landing on the moon or splitting the atom.
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A recent study shows that 11.6 genes per megabase, including 1,524 protein-coding genes and 765 pseudogenes can be found on chromosome 11.
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The most obvious example of such variation follows from the arrangement of nucleotides in protein-coding genes into three-base codons.
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It is 30 million base pairs in size and is predicted to contain around 9,500 protein-coding genes on eight chromosomes.
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The sequence is about 12 million base pairs and contains about 5000 protein-coding genes.
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Almost 40% of protein-coding genes fall into 662 families containing between two and 500 members.
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The sequence of the cacao genome identified 28,798 protein-coding genes, compared to the roughly 23,000 protein-coding genes of the human genome.
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The haploid human genome (23 chromosomes) is estimated to be about 3.2 billion base pairs long and to contain 20,00025,000 distinct protein-coding genes.
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A few of these are expressed on the reverse sense to protein-coding genes.
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They performed an initial study of the genome using random sequencing in 1993, by which they found 100,993 nucleotides and 390 protein-coding genes.
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