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Good day!
I have read this interesting blog:
https://thehumanevolutionblog.com/2...ourney-through-the-dark-matter-of-the-genome/
There is explained what are introns (of course I knew the meaning of this term but I intentionally copied the following explanation from this blog):
So, introns are part of mRNA, or gene(s) itself located in DNA, this is clear. The genes make up only 2-3 % of the whole DNA, so introns (or their predecessors) are located in this 2-3 %, right?
But this blog has got such image:
What do they mean? 26 % of whole genome belongs to the introns that (if I understood correctly) are part of 2-3 % of the same whole genome? Or maybe I misunderstood something?
I have read this interesting blog:
https://thehumanevolutionblog.com/2...ourney-through-the-dark-matter-of-the-genome/
There is explained what are introns (of course I knew the meaning of this term but I intentionally copied the following explanation from this blog):
Image from Wikipedia:Introns – the regions within a gene that do not encode for part of the protein and are instead “spliced out” of the mRNA before it is translated to protein.
So, introns are part of mRNA, or gene(s) itself located in DNA, this is clear. The genes make up only 2-3 % of the whole DNA, so introns (or their predecessors) are located in this 2-3 %, right?
But this blog has got such image:
What do they mean? 26 % of whole genome belongs to the introns that (if I understood correctly) are part of 2-3 % of the same whole genome? Or maybe I misunderstood something?