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"Coding segments" is the term given to genes, segments of the DNA strand that code for a protein. Much of an organism's genome is non-coding segments, portions that do not have a role in protein synthesis.
Coding sequences of a gene are expressed as protein
Junk DNA is non-coding DNA it does not code for protein.
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The genome is the totality of all genetic material, both coding sequences (genes) and non-coding sequences, in an individual organism.
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"Coding segments" is the term given to genes, segments of the DNA strand that code for a protein. Much of an organism's genome is non-coding segments, portions that do not have a role in protein synthesis.
Coding sequences of a gene are expressed as protein
Junk DNA is non-coding DNA it does not code for protein.
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A gene is a functional unit on DNA. A gene codes for a protein. Most of the DNA in a genome does not code for protein. These non-coding sequences are thought to provide a sense of stability and integrity to the genome. If a DNA sequence is capable of coding for a functional protein, then it is a gene
its genome sequence and blueprint of organisms, the set of instructions explaining its biological traits. The unfolding of these instructions is launched by the transcription of DNA into RNA sequences. Based on the standard model, the majority of RNA sequences stem from protein-coding genes, namely, they’re processed into mRNAs after their export to the cytosol and are translated into certain proteins.
Proteins are constructed in cells according to the instructions coded into DNA. Proteins are also much easier to see than the coding of DNA molecules, so there was a time where differences between proteins were detectable and differences in DNA were not detectable. As such, the logical hypothesis is that proteins are inherited and duplicated without any other source of instructions. In fact, it is DNA that is hereditary, and the variations in proteins that were observed to be hereditary previously are now understood to be artefacts from the use of the same DNA instructions.
it can!
Coding DNA is DNA that "codes" for protein creation. DNA is NOT strictly speaking a code however, it's more like a 3D reverse template for the protein. The component chemicals coalesce from the cell's plasma against the coding DNA much like a lot of non-biological catalyzation. When the protein is completed it peels off and does whatever that protein does.By contrast, non-coding DNA functions in ways other than direct protein synthesis. Some of these functions are being learned, but others are currently unknown. And it is likely that some of the non-coding sections of DNA are "Junk" DNA, ie DNA that does literally nothing.Junk DNA and non-coding DNA often mutate much faster than coding DNA for the simple reason that mutations in coding DNA are usually fatal.