Lastly, we examined only the mRNA expression of target genes and not the functional protein level.
Our skin cells, for instance, are genetically identical to brain cells, but each are programmed before birth to express certain genes and not others, much like striking different combinations of keys on a piano will result in different chords.
Presence of conserved functional motifs in the inferred amino acid sequences, conserved secondary structures of the flanking tRNAPro and tRNAThr, and Southern hybridization concordantly suggest that these cyt b represent functional mitochondrial genes and not nuclear transpositions.
Why these genes and not others are retained by many species is a mystery, experts say.
([Fitzgerald et al. 2008]) postulated that production of acetyl pyroline could be driven by alleles at two different genes and not only by different alleles of BADH2.
The majority of the polymorphisms are located outside of coding regions of genes, and not all coding-region variants are pathogenic.
The flower sizes in the two sexes can be treated as traits sharing many genes, and not surprisingly having a high correlation in the population.
It is also noteworthy that the success rate reported for Arabidopsis was based on their top 40 predicted genes and not all predicted genes as in our study.
What is different is that the genic selectionists want to tell the causal story in terms of genes and not in terms of interactors and genes.
According to them, this distinctive informational role explains why genes, and not just any resource, represent the phenotype and have a special developmental role.
In fruit flies, they came across five young genes that were derived from "noncoding" DNA between existing genes and not from preexisting genes.
