1 Corinthians 1:25
"Prediction: it was proposed in the early 1940s that genes would each code for one protein or enzyme. This applied in bacteria. And the realization that the formation of any functional gene coding for one protein by evolutionary processes was improbable reinforced this view.
"Prediction: it was proposed in the early 1940s that genes would each code for one protein or enzyme. This applied in bacteria. And the realization that the formation of any functional gene coding for one protein by evolutionary processes was improbable reinforced this view.
Thus, it was applied to all organisms. It was not anticipated that a
gene could code for more than one protein, or other functions as well as protein production.
--Hence it was thought that humans would have over 100,000 genes.
--This is not the case; we have ~23,000 genes, but we produce many more than 100,000 different proteins.
This is achieved by a given DNA sequence being multi-functional, coding for more than one protein."
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