Gene Duplication Can Occur for Both Protein Coding and Regulatory

question 22

Essay

Gene duplication can occur for both protein coding and regulatory regions of genes.In the figure below,imagine that the yellow gene and both enhancer regions in B are duplicated.Propose a mechanism for how subfunctionalization might occur.

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