cistron
2 synonyms for cistron, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A section of DNA that carries the instructions for making one protein.
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Common words most readers know — safe in any writing.
Etymology
Coined in 1957 by the American molecular biologist Seymour Benzer, from cis, trans and -on. It was named in the context of a "cis-trans comparison" used to identify " […] whether two mutants, having similar defects, are indeed defective in the same way."
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