Question

What is the function of introns?

Answer 1

Introns:

1. Noncoding regions of an RNA transcript of the DNA encoding it that gets spliced off before the RNA molecule gets translated into a protein are referred to as introns.
2. The term intron comes from the term intragenic region, which refers to a region within a gene.
3. They have a role in gene expression regulation.
4. They play a crucial role in evolution.
5. Alternative splicing may lead to different types of protein from the same gene.