Associations to the word «Exon»

Wiktionary

EXON, noun. An officer of the Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.
EXON, noun. (genetics) A region of a transcribed gene present in the final functional RNA molecule.
EXON SHUFFLING, noun. (genetics) The proposed mixing of different exons either within a gene or between two nonallelic genes.

Dictionary definition

EXON, noun. Sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein structures; "exons are interspersed with introns".

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn