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RNA splicing

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splicing /splic·ing/ (spli´sing)
1. the attachment of individual DNA molecules to each other, as in the production of chimeric genes.

RNA splicing  the removal (splicing out) of introns from a primary transcript and the subsequent joining (splicing together) of exons in the production of a mature RNA molecule.

RNA splicing
n.
See splicing.

RNA splicing,
(in molecular genetics) the process by which base pairs that interrupt the continuity of genetic information in deoxyribonucleic acid are removed from the precursors of messenger ribonucleic acid.

RNA splicing,
n the process by which base pairs that interrupt the continuity of genetic information in deoxyribonucleic acid are removed from the precursors of messenger ribonucleic acid.


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