cistron

Mane (Îngilîzî)

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

Hevwate

factor

gene

structural gene

Werger

cistron

سِيسْترون

عامِل

مُوَرِّثَة

gen

γονίδιο

facteur

gène

gene

gene

gene

genes

guen

Genes

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

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."