Biology · Molecular Genetics
New protein-coding genes sometimes originate when exons from different ancestral genes are combined through recombination events, producing a novel domain architecture within a single polypeptide. This mechanism of generating new genes is called:
- 1Gene duplication
- 2Retroposition
- 3Alternative splicing
- 4Exon shuffling✓
Correct answer
Exon shuffling
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