[WikiEN-l] Junk DNA

Magdalena Fikus magdaf at ibb.waw.pl
Thu Mar 3 08:35:59 UTC 2005


In the main text about "Junk DNA' "repressor" is quoted as a kind of junk DNA. Repressors are proteins coded by DNA. The position of the word, just after "enhancer", suggests that may be the author thought about "silencer", the sequence of DNA silencing expression of a given gene.
Magdalena Fikus
Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences.


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