Practice mode Plant Breeding and Genetics

In which organism were split genes first reported?

Correct answer B. Chickens

Explanation

Split genes, containing introns between coding exons, were found in 1977 in adenovirus and soon afterwards in the chicken ovalbumin gene, among the first eukaryotic examples.

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