Biology
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ISBN: 9781260487947
Author: BROOKER
Publisher: MCG
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Chapter 1.3, Problem 3CC
Biologists sometimes say that the genome is the storage unit of life, whereas the proteome is largely the functional unit of life. Explain this statement.
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