Till now, in biological sciences, the term, transcription, mainly refers
to DNA to RNA transcription. But our recently published experimental findings
obtained from Plasmodium falciparum strongly
suggest the existence of DNA to DNA transcription in the genome of eukaryotic
cells, which could shed some light on the functions of certain noncoding DNA in
the human and other eukaryotic genomes.
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