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n. - (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain.

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  • 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...
  • They explicitely explain that streptomycin resistance is the result of the organisms singular rRNA cistron, which renders them with one reversible mutation from almost...
  • As I was grappling with some of the more technical passages that contained words like allele, nucleotide, cistron, and mitosis,
  • ~3-fold increase (p-value = 0.0031) in translation of the second cistron of the reporter compared to control experiments with β-galactosidase overexpression (
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