| junk food |
food that tastes good but is high in calories having little nutritional value
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| junk DNA |
stretches of DNA that do not code for genes; "most of the genome consists of junk DNA"
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| junk DNA |
Stretches of DNA that do not code for genes, also called non-coding DNA. Most of the genome consists of non-coding DNA, and was therefore long thought to be
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| junk DNA |
an older term for the regions of DNA on the genome that lie between genes, and once thought to have little or no function. Now it is known that these regions may have significant roles in the control of gene expression.
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| junk DNA |
Portions of DNA that don't have genes with an obvious function.
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