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Molecular epigenesis, molecular pleiotropy, and molecular gene definitions.
History and philosophy of the life sciences - 1 Jan 2004
Burian Richard M
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Recent work on gene concepts has been influenced by recognition of the extent to which RNA transcripts from a given DNA sequence yield different products in different cellular environments. These transcripts are altered in many ways and yield many products based, somehow, on the sequence of nucleotides in the DNA. I focus on alternative splicing of RNA transcripts (which often yields distinct proteins from the...
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