CISTRON
Definition:
- [noun] (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"
Synonyms: gene, factor
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- dominant gene
- allele, allelomorph
- genetic marker
- homeotic gene
- lethal gene
- linkage group, linked genes
- modifier, modifier gene
- mutant gene
- nonallele
- operator gene
- oncogene, transforming gene
- polygene
- proto-oncogene
- recessive gene
- regulatory gene, regulator gene
- repressor gene
- structural gene
- suppressor, suppresser, suppressor gene, suppresser gene
- X-linked gene
- Y-linked gene, holandric gene
