exon
1(in Britain) one of four yeomen of the guard who act as commanding officers in the absence of higher authority.
Origin of exon
1- Also called exempt.
Words Nearby exon
Other definitions for exon (2 of 2)
any portion of an interrupted gene that is represented in the RNA product and is translated into protein.
Origin of exon
2- Compare intron.
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How to use exon in a sentence
As introns are removed during splicing, one exon also gets axed from the resulting SMN2 RNA—exon 7.
Scientists took a few hundred thousand random molecules and tested each one in cells to see which ones increase SMN2 exon 7 splicing.
Although the final drug, Evrysdi, is safe and effective, scientists are still debating how it functions at the molecular level—in particular, how it singles out SMN2 exon 7 among the vast number of other exons.
The cell then snips out these extraneous bits, leaving only exons to form mature RNA that can make proteins.
New ‘Universal Switch’ Lets Scientists Fine-Tune Gene Therapy | Shelly Fan | August 3, 2021 | Singularity HubIn 1837 he was appointed exon of the Yeomen of the Guard, which he held up to 1849.
Norfolk Annals | Charles Mackie
exon librum istum cum pari suo, in festo Annuntiationis Dominice.
Old English Libraries | Ernest SavageBut, it will be seen, the 'tenuit' of Domesday is equated by the 'emit' of the exon book.
We have not seen dominicum used as a substantive; but in the exon.
Domesday Book and Beyond | Frederic William MaitlandI do not believe that there could be found under heaven another man like this exon.
A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times | Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
British Dictionary definitions for exon (1 of 2)
/ (ˈɛksɒn) /
British one of the four officers who command the Yeomen of the Guard
Origin of exon
1British Dictionary definitions for exon (2 of 2)
/ (ˈɛksɒn) /
any segment of a discontinuous gene the segments of which are separated by introns: Compare intron
Origin of exon
2Derived forms of exon
- exonic, adjective
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Scientific definitions for exon
[ ĕk′sŏn ]
A segment of a gene that contains information used in coding for protein synthesis. Genetic information within genes is discontinuous, split among the exons that encode for messenger RNA and absent from the DNA sequences in between, which are called introns. Genetic splicing, catalyzed by enzymes, results in the final version of messenger RNA, which contains only genetic information from the exons. Compare intron.
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Cultural definitions for exon
Stretches of DNA in genes that code for proteins. In eukaryotes, exons in a given gene are generally separated from each other by stretches of DNA that do not contain instructions for constructing proteins. (Compare intron.)
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