"That's quite a shock, and the natural conclusion is, this part of our junk DNA isn't junk."

It seems to be just gibberish, or junk DNA.

Likewise, the existence of junk DNA that provides no benefit to its host, once a puzzle, can be more easily explained.

Exons in junk DNA play a role in gene regulation.

Q. More than 75 percent of you is junk DNA.

You should have had a segment on Stateless in junk DNA.

But the reasons for the massive amounts of "junk DNA" between the genes was a mystery at that time.

Sometimes the adduct may attach itself to a length of junk DNA, where it does the body no harm.

This so-called junk DNA may, however, contain unrecognized functional elements.

The repetitive sequences have no known function and used to be called junk DNA.