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Definition of "cistron" []

  • A section of DNA that contains the genetic code for a single polypeptide and functions as a hereditary unit. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "cistron" in a sentence
  • "They explicitely explain that streptomycin resistance is the result of the organisms singular rRNA cistron, which renders them with one reversible mutation from almost completely resistant/non-resistant."
  • "This idea is expressed by the classic slogan of Beadle: "one gene - one enzyme", or in the more sophisticated but cumbersome terminology of today: "one cistron - one polypeptide chain"."
  • "As I was grappling with some of the more technical passages that contained words like allele, nucleotide, cistron, and mitosis,"