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Definition of Cistrons
1. cistron [n] - See also: cistron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cistrons
Literary usage of Cistrons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Experiments on RNA-DNA hybridization (18) have shown that approximately 0.4
percent of the E. coli chromosome contains cistrons coding for rRNA. ..."
2. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"Although ribosomal cistrons occur in high copy number, the sequence of each repeat
within a genome is conserved via unequal crossing over and other DNA ..."
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