cistron

Meaning

Noun

The unit of hereditary material (e.g. DNA) that encodes one protein; sometimes used interchangeably with the word gene.

Origin

, 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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