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exitrons

exitrons is the plural of exitron.

Meaning of exitron

Noun

exitron (plural exitrons)

  1. One of a set of alternatively spliced internal regions of protein-coding exons.
    • Therefore, in what ways might the processing and regulation of exitron splicing differ from that of conventional introns?2015 July 7, Dorothee Staiger, Gordon G. Simpson, “Enter exitrons”, in Genome Biology, volume 16, →DOI

Questions about exitrons

What is exitrons the plural of?
Exitrons is the plural of exitron.

Words near exitrons in the dictionary

  1. exitonic
  2. exitotoxic
  3. exitotoxicity
  4. exitotoxin
  5. exitron
  6. exitrons
  7. exits
  8. exits stage left
  9. exitus
  10. exlex
  11. exlexes

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