intron
About 0.38 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A portion of a split gene that is included in pre-RNA transcripts but is removed during RNA processing and rapidly degraded.
Similar words
splicing protointron intein exon mirtron spliceosome pseudoexon microexon precore primary transcript
Often followed by
of sequences and is in a
Word family
introns
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