A pancreas--cell in the pancreas, for example, needs to make insulin and so the gene for insulin is transcribed.

举个例子,一个胰腺细胞,要分泌胰岛素,那么编码胰岛素蛋白的基因就会被转录

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There are encoding regions called exons and those are interrupted by non-coding regions called introns.

编码蛋白质的部分叫外显子,外显子被不编码蛋白质的内含子打断

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