(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
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cistron::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | factor, gene |
| Type of | sequence |
| Has types | y-linked gene, allelomorph, dominant gene, genetic marker, transforming gene, transgene, x-linked gene, allele, holandric gene, homeotic gene, lethal gene, linkage group, linked genes, modifier, modifier gene, mutant gene, nonallele, oncogene, operator gene, polygene, proto-oncogene, recessive gene, regulator gene, regulatory gene, repressor gene, structural gene, suppresser, suppresser gene, suppressor, suppressor gene |
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The cistron DNA is transcribed into a variety of RNA intermediates.
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This process might involve suppression of crossing-over, translocation of chromosome fragments and possibly occasional cistron duplication.
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- Gene: (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"
- A cistron is a term used to describe the locus responsible for generating a protein. It can also be defined as the segment of DNA that contains all the information for production of single polypeptide.
- Sometimes used interchangeably with the word gene, a cistron is the unit of hereditary material (e.g. DNA) that encodes one protein
- (French : cistron) Genetic function unit defined by the cis-trans test. The smallest unit of genetic material that must be intact to function as a transmitter of genetic information.
- The section of a chromosome that controls a single function. Formally defined by the cis-trans test.
- A DNA sequence that codes for a specific polypeptide; a gene. See DNA; gene.
- A genetic unit that encodes a single polypeptide chain.
- Segments of DNA corresponding to one polypeptide chain, plus transcriptional start and stops signs.
- The section of messenger RNA that actually codes for the protein.
