Immune Response Generated against Schistosoma mansoni

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Exons are usually short, typically encoding fewer than 100 amino acids

Exon sequences are conserved by the negative selection of individuals in which the sequences have changed.

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In the fruit fly, gene sizes have a bimodal distribution—many are short but some are quite long

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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.