JUNIOR PROTEIN. “The potential protein of a novel ORF can be considered an arbitrary sequence, as opposed to one that has been refined by natural selection. It has been shown that an arbitrary sequence can contain selectable variation, at least in some circumstances. If not expressed, neither the favourable nor the unfavourable ORFs in the genome will have the opportunity to be improved or removed by selection.” (ORF = open reading frame).
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