Which of the following would likely exclude a sequence from being considered as an active gene?

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B) exons in different reading frames from one another
C) an exon followed by 3? processing signals
D) only one exon with an in-frame stop codon
E) introns missing the GT-AG splice junctions appropriate for this gene


E

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