Which of the following is an explanation of why a single gene in an eukaryotic cell may code for more than one polypeptide chain?   Question 20 options:   the gene transcription stops at different termination sites   the nascent mRNA molecule is cut at different exon sites   alternative splicing happens with the nascent mRNA molecule   genetic differentiation happens   blockage of different introns in the final version of the different mRNA strands

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Which of the following is an explanation of why a single gene in an eukaryotic cell may code for more than one polypeptide chain?

 

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the gene transcription stops at different termination sites

 

the nascent mRNA molecule is cut at different exon sites

 

alternative splicing happens with the nascent mRNA molecule

 

genetic differentiation happens

 

blockage of different introns in the final version of the different mRNA strands

 

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