CODING DNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coding DNA mean? 

• CODING DNA (noun)
  The noun CODING DNA has 1 sense:

1. sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein structures

  Familiarity information: CODING DNA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CODING DNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein structures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

coding DNA; exon

Context example:

exons are interspersed with introns

Hypernyms ("coding DNA" is a kind of...):

deoxyribonucleic acid; desoxyribonucleic acid; DNA ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information)

 Context examples 

A point mutation in a coding DNA sequence that causes a base change which results in an amino acid change in the protein product.

(Missense Mutation Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)

Insertion or deletion of one, two or four nucleotides that alters the correct reading frame of an amino acid-coding DNA sequence, resulting in an amino acid sequence that is changed or truncated.

(Frameshift Mutation Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)