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What is an intron?

What is an intron? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (genetics) A portion of a split gene that is included in pre-RNA transcripts but is removed during RNA processing and rapidly degraded.
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This spacer region coincided with the presence of an intron between the zinc fingers in the DNA sequence of the group C genes.
The fragments were cloned and DNA sequencing demonstrated that they actually corresponded to cDNA with proper intron splicing.
Each intron is removed in a separate series of reactions by a complicated piece of enzymatic machinery called a spliceosome.
The second insertion traps an exon of a different gene contained in an intron of the former gene.
The dashed line and lowercase letters represent intron sequences and the solid line and uppercase letters represent exon sequences.
There are also two dinucleotide microsatellites and one mononucleotide microsatellite, all in the first intron.

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