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Intron

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A portion of a split gene that is included in pre-RNA transcripts but is removed during RNA processing and rapidly degraded.

    "It is a medium-sized gene, then, interrupted by five longish introns."

  2. 2
    sequence of a eukaryotic gene's DNA that is not translated into a protein wordnet

Etymology

From intragenic region.

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