Encyclopedia > Exon

  Article Content

Exon

In genetics, exons are the regions of a transcribed gene that are not spliced out and which are retained in the final mRNA molecule as part of the protein-coding region. See also intron, the sections of RNA that are spliced out.

Exon trapping[?] is a clever molecular biology technique that exploits the existence of the intron-exon architecture to find new genes.

See also: Exxon



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
East Farmingdale, New York

... 387.5/km² (1,003.8/mi²). There are 1,723 housing units at an average density of 123.7/km² (320.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 73.33% White, ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 22.4 ms