Re: Most Conserved Genes?

dougwedel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> What kind of functions do the most strongly conserved portions of the
> mammalian genome code for?

Look up histones.  For one of them there is only a single amino acid
substitution between plants and animals.  Silent third positions and
first position 6 codon family nucleotide positions can still change so
the DNA isn't that conserved, but the protein sequence is conserved.

Ron Okimoto


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