Which of the following describes when mixtures of protein-coding regions from duplicated genes with different functions generate new genes with new functions?

A. concerted evolution
B. neofunctionalization
C. de novo genes
D. Subfunctionalization
E. exon shuffling


Ans: E. exon shuffling

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