Say we've got a human gene that we want to make and let's say it's the human gene for insulin that we want to produce now.

假设我们想合成出一个人类的基因,假设现在我们想合成的,是人类的胰岛素基因

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If I want to clone a gene from a human, if I want to clone the gene for human isulin, mean make many copies of the gene that's responsible for making insulin, I need to know whether there are introns there or not.

如果我想要从一个人类个体克隆基因,如果我想要克隆人类胰岛素基因,亦即我要把负责生成胰岛素的基因,复制许多个副本,我就得要知道哪些是内含子,哪些不是

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