How to Use noncoding in a Sentence

noncoding

adjective

• Many noncoding genes serve important regulatory, protective, or other functions within a cell.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
• In this dark matter, noncoding DNA is transcribed into noncoding RNA.
  — Marlene Belfort, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2026
• Even though the repeat is in a noncoding region of the gene [one that doesn’t contain instructions to build specific proteins], it has been shown to actually make toxic RNA and very small, toxic proteins.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026
• These chromosomes encompass some 6 billion nucleotides in most human cells and include coding genes, noncoding elements (such as the telomeres at the ends of chromosomes), regulatory elements, and mitochondrial DNA.
  — Dmitri Pavlichin, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2018
• Further analysis revealed that SARS-CoV-2 infection had altered small noncoding RNA molecules (sncRNAs) in sperm – epigenetic markers known to influence how genes are expressed in the next generation.
  — New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025