: not specifying the genetic code
a noncoding DNA sequence

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But many researchers make the point that surely many more of the noncoding molecules do meaningful things than was suspected before. Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024 These lncRNAs are just one branch of the noncoding RNA family, and biologists keep discovering others that appear to have different functions and different ways of affecting what happens to a cell—and thus the entire human body. Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024

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1962, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of noncoding was in 1962

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“Noncoding.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noncoding. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.

Medical Definition

noncoding

adjective
: not specifying the genetic code
noncoding introns
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