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09/01/2022 5:31 pm
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Do you think that the alternative splicing of exons may enable a structural gene to code for several isoproteins from one and the same gene? If yes, how? If not, why so?
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09/01/2022 5:32 pm
Functional mRN A of structural genes need not always include all of its exons. This alternate splicing of exons is sex-specific, tissue-specific and even developmental stage-specific. By such alternate splicing of exons, a single gene may encode for several iso proteins and/or proteins of similar class. In absence of such a kind of splicing, there should have been new genes for every protein/iso protein. Such an extravagancy has been avoided in natural phenomena by way of alternative splicing.