cistron

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

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

Έννοιες

γονίδιο

Συνώνυμα

factor

gene

structural gene

Μεταφράσεις

cistron

سِيسْترون

عامِل

مُوَرِّثَة

gen

facteur

gène

gene

gene

gene

genes

guen

Genes

gen

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

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."