Home
Class 12
BIOLOGY
What are introns and exons?...

What are introns and exons?

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

Exons are protein coding regions of the mRNA and Introns are super fluous intervening sequences between exons which re excised out forming functional mRNA.
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE

    SANTRA PUBLICATION|Exercise Very short answer type Questions|30 Videos

  • MICROBES IN HUMAN WELFARE

    SANTRA PUBLICATION|Exercise (long answer type question)|8 Videos

  • REPRODUCTION IN ORGANISMS

    SANTRA PUBLICATION|Exercise Long answer type Questions|16 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

What is a salt-bridge? What are its components?

What do you mean by Intron and Exon?

What is cell wall? What are its function?

Removal of introns and joining the exons in a defined order in a transcription unit is

What are purin and pirimidine bases? What is nucleoside? What are telomere and satellite?

What is development ? What are direct and indirect developments ?

What is a storage cell?What does it store and how?

What are fillers and what role these fillers play in soap?

(a) What is Apnoea ? (b) What are its causes? (c) What is Cheyne-stokes breathing ?

What are hcp and ccp structures? What are their unit cells? In what ways are these structures similar?