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

1 sense of junk dna

Sense 1
junk DNA -- (stretches of DNA that do not code for genes; "most of the genome consists of junk DNA")
       => 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")