Exon
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An exon is the expressed part of a gene. In eukaryotic DNA, genes are composed of alternating segments of exons and introns. During the transcription process, the introns are "edited out" as the exons are transcribed to form the messenger RNA. The introns are not actually removed from the original DNA template; they are simply skipped over during transcription, leaving the gene's exons connected end to end in the transcript. This page is a stub. You can help EvoWiki by expanding it into a full article. See this page for some ideas for how the page could look.
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