The human genome contains about 25,000 genes and yet produces about 100,000 different polypeptides. propose an explanation of how this is possible.

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Sparks

27 July, 00:16

The human genome contains about 25,000 genes and yet produces about 100,000 different polypeptides. propose an explanation of how this is possible.

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Rene Wolfe · Answer 1

The human genome can produce more polypeptides because there can be many different combinations of amino acids to produce the polypeptides. A polypeptide is a chain of amino acids. Therefore, a polypeptide is related to, but different from a gene.