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    Bacterial ‘flipping’ allows genes to assume different forms

    2024-09-26T09:55:00Z

    A new study has shown that inversions, which cause a physical flip of a segment of DNA and change an organism’s genetic identity, can occur within a single gene, challenging a central dogma of biology — that one gene can code for only one protein.