As a result, it does not code for the proper protein, it does not merit the name gene (
only pseudogene), and it does not permit cats to taste sweets.
Not exact matches
The
pseudogene is less than half the size of its relative and yields
only a tiny snippet of RNA that can't produce a protein.
A human - specific gene expressed
only in glial cells of the brain apparently arose from conversion of the ancestral gene by a nonfunctional
pseudogene in a common human chimp ancestor.