If an ion channel is composed of five different sub-units, and no RNA splicing or any other kind of processing occurs, how many different genes are required to express this channel?

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Since the ion channel is composed of five different sub-units and there's no mention of any sub-unit being encoded by more than one gene or any gene encoding for more than one sub-unit, it implies that each sub-unit is encoded by a distinct gene. Therefore, five different genes are required to express this channel.

If an Ion Channel Is Composed of Five Different Sub-Units