one gene–one polypeptide chain hypothesis

one gene–one polypeptide chain hypothesis
the hypothesis that each gene codes for the production of a single polypeptide chain; there are exceptions, e.g., antibody genes, in which separate genes for variable and constant regions are rearranged to code for a single polypeptide.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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