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While all cells in an organism contain the same genetic information, explain how genes are both expressed and regulated in different ways.

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While all somatic cells within an organism contain the same DNA, not all cells within that organism express the same proteins. Eukaryotic organisms express a subset of the DNA that is encoded in any given cell. In each cell type, the type and amount of protein is regulated by controlling gene expression.

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