{"id":113320,"date":"2026-07-15T13:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=113320"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:15:20","slug":"intron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/intron\/","title":{"rendered":"Intron"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Intron Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists visually tracked an RNA intron jumping from a predator to its prey, revealing insights into gene transfer across species.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Intron<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In some genes, not all of the DNA sequence is used to make protein.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introns are<\/span><b> noncoding sections of an RNA transcript,<\/b> <b>or the DNA <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">encoding it, that are <\/span><b>spliced out before the RNA molecule<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is<\/span><b> translated into a protein.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>sections of DNA (or RNA) that code for protein<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s are called <\/span><b>exons<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Following transcription<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, new, immature strands of <\/span><b>messenger RNA, called pre-mRNA, may contain both introns and exons.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> pre-mRNA molecule<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> thus goes through a <\/span><b>modification process<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the nucleus called <\/span><b>splicing <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">during which the <\/span><b>noncoding introns are cut out <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>only the coding exons remain.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Splicing produces a mature messenger RNA molecul<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e that is then<\/span><b> translated into a protein.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Introns <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are also<\/span><b> referred to as intervening sequences.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>length <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of introns<\/span><b> differs among species and genes <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the same species; <\/span><b>mammals and flowering plants<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have<\/span><b> multiple introns <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and are<\/span><b> longer than exons.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Introns may contain sequences<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that <\/span><b>regulate how genes are expressed or transcribed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>how mRNA is processed. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/why-scientists-watched-a-gene-hop-from-a-predator-into-its-prey\/article71220657.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introns are noncoding sections of an RNA transcript, or the DNA encoding it, that are spliced out before the RNA molecule is translated into a protein. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":113312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8694],"class_list":["post-113320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-intron","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113341,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113320\/revisions\/113341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}