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Cistron

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The unit of hereditary material (e.g. DNA) that encodes one protein.

    "Holonym: locus"

  2. 2
    (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity wordnet

Etymology

Coined by American molecular biologist Seymour Benzer in 1957, from cis + trans + -on. Named in the context of using a "cis-trans comparison" for identifying " […] whether two mutants, having similar defects, are indeed defective in the same way."

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