cistron

Signification (Anglais)

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

Synonymes

structural gene

Traductions

جِين

سِيسْترون

عامِل

مُوَرِّثَة

γονίδιο

guen

Genes

cistrón

Étymologie (Anglais)

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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