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What are the names of the coding and noncoding regions of a gene, respectively?

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The coding region of a gene is called the exon, and the noncoding region is called the intron. During the process of transcription, the introns are removed from the mRNA and only the exons are retained. This means that the mRNA only contains the information needed to build a protein, without any of the "noncoding" DNA.

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