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Describe the structure of the average human gene. Include in your description the size and number of introns and exons, the location and size of UTRs.

When one compares organism genomes and considers the size of the genome versus the percentage of introns present, what does one find? What percentage of the human genome is made up of introns? Exons?

What are the roles that introns play?

What percentage of the human genome is made up of non-coding sequences? What are the different kinds of noncoding RNAs and what do they do?

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