What is the best way to describe our current understanding of the one-gene/one-polypeptide hypothesis?
A)It continues to be an accurate description of how genes work.
B)It is oversimplified,especially in eukaryotes.
C)It has been replaced by the more accurate "one-gene/one-enzyme" hypothesis.
D)It was true for fungi like Neurospora,but not for other species.

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Our current understanding has revealed that some genes can code for multiple polypeptides (through alternative splicing) and that some polypeptides are made up of multiple subunits coded for by different genes. Therefore, the one-gene/one-polypeptide hypothesis is oversimplified, especially in eukaryotes.

What Is the Best Way to Describe Our Current Understanding