Do you think that the alternate splicing of exons may enable a structural gene to code for several isoproteins from one and the same gene? If yes,how? If not,why so?

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(A) Yes,alternate splicing of exons enables a single structural gene to code for multiple isoproteins.
Functional $mRNA$ of structural genes does not always include all of its exons.
This process of alternate splicing is regulated and can be sex-specific,tissue-specific,or developmental stage-specific.
By rearranging or omitting specific exons during the processing of $pre-mRNA$,a single gene can encode for several different isoproteins or proteins of a similar class.
In the absence of such splicing,the organism would require a unique gene for every single protein or isoprotein,which would be genetically inefficient.
Thus,alternative splicing allows for increased protein diversity without requiring a proportional increase in the number of genes.

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