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What does it mean for a gene to be turned off or not expressed

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gene regulation

Step-by-step explanation:

each cell expresses only a fraction of it's genes.expresses or turns on means that protein is being produced from that gene.the rest of the genes are turned off or repressed meaning that no protein is being produced from those genes.

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