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Definitions for "Non-coding DNA"
Keywords:  antisense, junk, dna, genealogical, mirror
Related Terms: Exon, Coding sequence, Intron, Introns, Cistron, Alternative splicing, Primer, Gene transcription, Splicing, Primase, Nick translation, Primosome, Gene expression, Polycistronic, Coding region, Okazaki fragments, Probe , Cdna, Antisense, Dna hybridization, Complementary dna, Replication fork, Dna ligase, Lagging strand, Exons, Northern blot, Dna probe, Dna polymerase, Dna replication, In situ hybridization, Promoter, Replisome, Okazaki fragment, Complementary sequence, Origin of replication, Heteroduplex, Rna splicing, Interference, Gene, Ligation, Gene sequencing, Transcription, Restriction endonuclease, Expression vector, Rna interference, Junk dna, Cdna library, Amplicon, Pribnow box, Palindromic sequence
DNA that does not code for a protein.  Not all DNA codes for proteins.  Some DNA between genes is needed to help the genetic machinery express the genes.  DNA also contains segments that are repeated many times.
cgm.northwestern.edu
One of the two identical strands that make up the DNA double helix. The non-coding strand, or antisense strand, is a mirror-image of the coding strand, but does not carry the information needed to order the production of proteins.
pbs.org
The strand of DNA that does not carry the information necessary to make a protein. The non-coding strand is the mirror image of the coding strand and is also known as the antisense strand.
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