Pseudogene

This post was written by admin on January 3, 2010
Posted Under: Glossary

A defective segment of DNA that resembles a gene but cannot be transcribed.

Nuclear Mitochondrial Pseudogenes or Numts: Nuclear sequences exhibiting a high degree of similarity with mtDNA sequences, exist in Mammals , Birds , Acanthocephalus lucii

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