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. 2016 Mar 13;374(2063):20150065. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0065

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

The fuzzy meaning concept and gain and loss of meaning. The cartoon schematically shows a fragment of a genome of a complex multicellular organism (animal or plant) that consists mostly of sequences with fuzzy meaning, interspersed with ‘islands’ of defined meaning such as genes (exons) encoding structural RNAs and proteins as well as evolutionarily conserved regulatory elements. (Online version in colour.)