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Where does “exon” come from?

Exon comes from French exempt, from Latin exemptus, the past participle of eximo meaning to take out, derived from ex meaning out.

exon (English): An officer of the Queen's Body Guard of the...

Definitions

  1. An officer of the Queen's Body Guard of the...

Ancestry of “exon”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishintronA portion of a split gene that is included in...
2EnglishintragenicWithin a gene
3Englishgenicof, relating to, produced by, or being a gene
4English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
5EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
6Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
7Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
8Spanishimagenimage
9Italianimmagineimage; imago
10Latinimāginem—
11Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
12Latinīn-—
13Latinîn—
14Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
15Proto-Italicenin
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “exon”

  • exonic
  • pseudoexon
  • multiexon
  • miniexon
  • exonization
  • multiexonic
  • nonexonic
  • exonized
  • exome
  • exomic
  • intraexon
  • intraexonic
  • exomewide
  • exonal
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