Antonyms of noun intron

1 sense of intron

Sense 1
intron, noncoding DNA -- (sequence of a eukaryotic gene's DNA that is not translated into a protein)
       Antonym of exon (Sense 1)
      => exon, coding DNA -- (sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein structures; "exons are interspersed with introns")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun intron

1 sense of intron

Sense 1
intron, noncoding DNA -- (sequence of a eukaryotic gene's DNA that is not translated into a protein)
       => deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA -- ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information; "DNA is the king of molecules")