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