The simplest overlapping gene is one in which ____________

a. the sequence DNA codes for two nonhomologous proteins
b. the gene has more than one reading frame
c. the gene has only one intron
d. one gene is part of another
e. the proteins specified differ only in exon order


Ans: d

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