Medical Dictionary
exon
noun ex·on \ˈek-ˌsän\
Medical Definition of EXON
: a polynucleotide sequence in a nucleic acid that codes information for protein synthesis and that is copied and spliced together with other such sequences to form messenger RNA—compare intron
—ex·on·ic \ek-ˈsän-ik\ adjective
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