How can humans survive if they have an inactive gene that encodes a nonfunctional myosin protein?
A. We have over 40 closely related myosin genes.
B. Myosin is not essential for life.
C. Myosin participates in several processes in the cell.
D. Other proteins in the body can do the same thing as myosin.
E. Other primates have the same nonfunctional myosin protein and survive.
A. We have over 40 closely related myosin genes.
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