exon
noun/ˈɛksɒn/
Frequency rank: #19,159 most common English word
Meaning
a segment of a gene that codes for part of a protein and is retained in the final messenger RNA after splicing.
Example sentence
The researcher explained that each exon is a coding segment of DNA that gets expressed in the final protein.
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