cistron

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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

Synonyme

structural gene

Übersetzungen

سِيسْترون

عامِل

مُوَرِّثَة

γονίδιο

gene

guen

Genes

Etymologie (Englisch)

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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