Fat and muscle cells express large amounts of the insulin-responsive glucose transporter GLUT4

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Erwin Chargaff gave four “rules,” known as parity rule for duplex DNA.

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The second parity rule applies more closely to introns than to exons.

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The length of Introns is variable while exons are almost constant in length.

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Genes that share a common ancestry have similar organizations with conservation of the positions (of at least some) of the introns.

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The homology between two genes can be plotted in the form of a dot matrix comparison

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Sequences that presumably diverged as a result of gene duplication are paralogous.