Exons must be excised from the unusable portion of the code, then ligated
to complete a usable string. Introns are internal nonsense.
On 6 May 1997, Justin McElhanon wrote:
>> Chris Colby (colby at biology.bu.edu) wrote:
> : Uncle Al Schwartz wrote:
> :
> : > As 98+% of the human genome consists of
> : > introns
> :
> : The human genome is not ninety-eight percent introns. Roughly three
>> Here's a random question, why do they call what stays in the
> protein extrons and what leaves introns? Doesn't the ex prefix mean out?
> Therefore shouldn't what gets cut out be called the extrons and what
> stays in introns? Just wondering if there is a simple reason behind it.
>> --
> Justin McElhanon-------------------------Thorin at tamu.edu>>
