Australian Jack Irishâex-lawyer and sometime debt collector, cabinetmaker and barflyâgets a double introduction as MacAdam/Cage releases his first two adventures (number two is Black Tide) this month.
But ever since then, the estimated number has been steadily shrinking. A new study suggests that the human genome could contain as few as 19,000 protein-coding genes, fewer than nematode worms. In 2001, the initial sequence of the human genome cut the figure dramatically.
Genes and RNA Splicing. In the SMN gene the protein coding information (exons) are interrupted by non-coding regions (introns). The introns need to be edited out of the RNA to produce the final set of instructions for the SMN protein. This process is called RNA splicing.. An animation shows how the DNA genetic code is made into protein.