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Past Question
At the beginning of this century there was a general announcement regarding the
sequencing of the human genome and the genomes of many other multicellular
eukaryotes. There was surprise expressed by many that the number of protein-
coding sequences is much smaller than they had expected.
A. Explain what accounted for the rest of the sequences observed in the genome
and discuss 4 examples of these types of sequences. (80 marks)