cistron

Meaning

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

Synonyms

structural gene

Translations

سِيسْترون

عامِل

مُوَرِّثَة

γονίδιο

gene

guen

Genes

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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