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Definition of cistron in English English dictionary
- Sometimes used interchangeably with the word gene, a cistron is the unit of hereditary material (e.g. DNA) that encodes one protein
- (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors"
- A DNA sequence that codes for a specific polypeptide; a gene See DNA, Gene
- a piece of DNA, often also called a gene
- A segment of DNA that codes for a single protein chain
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