EXON

Exon

An exon is any nucleotide sequence encoded by a gene that remains present within the final mature RNA product of that gene after introns have been removed by RNA splicing. The term exon refers to both the DNA sequence within a gene and to the corresponding sequence in RNA transcripts. In RNA splicing, introns are removed and exons are covalently joined to one another as part of generating the mature messenger RNA.

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exon

Noun

  1. An officer of the

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A region of a transcribed gene present in the final functional RNA molecule.


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