Intergenic: Amongs the two genes; for example intergenic DNA is the DNA found amongs two genes. The term is frequently used to mean non-functional DNA (or at least DNA with no known importance to the two genes flanking it). One may speak of the "intergenic distance" between two genes as number of base pairs from the polyA site of the first gene to the cap site of the second gene. This usage might thus include the promoter region of second gene.