Not long ago investigators were surprised to learn that more than 95% of a mammalian genome is transcribed, even though less than 2% encodes proteins. What kind of evidence could be used to determine the percentage of the genome that is transcribed?
Not long ago investigators were surprised to learn that more than 95% of a mammalian genome is transcribed, even though less than 2% encodes proteins. What kind of evidence could be used to determine the percentage of the genome that is transcribed?
Introduction
There are around 25000 genes present in the human genome which have around 3 billion base pairs. With this huge size of genome researchers first thought that we would have around 2500000 genes but to their surprise we found only 25000 genes which is very less number if we consider the total genome size and the total protein coded by these number of genes. This is called as C value paradox
Gene functions as the key to control almost all the physiochemical, biochemical reactions occur in the cell by making enzymes, proteins etc. To detect the specific gene for a particular morphological function we have to assess the proteins and have to trace their origins. By this method we can detect the genes and can understand its functioning, abnormality etc.
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