This suppression of recombination allows alleles adapted to a specific environment to remain together, unshuffled by recombinationsomes cannot produce viable progeny. 

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Overlapping gene are the same sequence of DNA encodes two nonhomologous proteins because it uses more than one reading frame.

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A mutation that confers a more advantageous phenotype to an organism, relative to Individuals in the same population without the mutation, is positive selection of that organism.

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Two genes may share some related exons but also have unique exons.

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A gene family is defined as a group of genes that encode related or identical products as a result of gene-duplication events.

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Genes that are more distantly related but have common ancestry. Such a group of gene families is called a superfamily.

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The genome is the complete set of genes of an organism.

The transcriptome is the complete set of genes expressed under particular conditions.

The proteome is the complete set of polypeptides encoded by the whole genome or produced in any particular cell or tissue