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What are exons and introns?

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Exons are sequences on the primary transcript, or pre-mRNA (or the DNA sequence from which it is transcribed), that remain in the RNA after RNA processing.

Introns are sequences on the primary transcript, or pre-mRNA (or the DNA sequence from which it is transcribed), that are removed from the RNA after RNA processing

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