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Junk dna Moderate

Junk dna has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

stretches of DNA that do not code for genes

"most of the genome consists of junk DNA"

2

Any portion of the DNA sequence of a chromosome or a genome with no apparent function.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
deoxyribonucleic acid
Rhyming Words
dna edna rdna ndna mdna adna kdna bdna cdna shdna dsdna didna mtdna ssdna lkdna pldna cpdna nrdna prdna trdna
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