cistron

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• February 27. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  cistron — noun — english

  (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"