Junk DNA
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junk-dna-178-13264932
title:
Junk DNA
text:
Junk DNA is a DNA sequence that has no known biological function. Most organisms have some junk DNA in their genomes—mostly, pseudogenes and fragments of transposons and viruses—but it is possible that some organisms have substantial amounts of junk DNA. All protein-coding regions are generally considered to be functional elements in genomes. Additionally, non-protein coding regions such as genes for ribosomal RNA and transfer RNA, regulatory sequences, origins of replication, centromeres, telom
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Those parts of a genome with no function
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_DNA
date created:
2002-03-14T08:59:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T18:49:23Z
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