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RNA splicing

(... SPLY-sing)

The process by which introns (noncoding regions of genes) are cut out of the primary messenger RNA transcript, and the exons (coding regions of genes) are joined together to make mature messenger RNA. Mature messenger RNA carries the instructions a cell needs for making a specific protein.

RNA splicing

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