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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CISTRON

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PRONUNCIATION OF CISTRON

cistron  [ˈsɪstrən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CISTRON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cistron is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CISTRON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cistron

A cistron is a gene. The term cistron is used to emphasize that genes exhibit a specific behavior in a cis-trans test; distinct positions within a genome are cistronic. For example, suppose a mutation at a chromosome position is responsible for a recessive trait in a diploid organism. We say that the mutation is recessive because the organism will exhibit the wild type phenotype unless both chromosomes of a pair have the mutation. Similarly, suppose a mutation at another position,, is responsible for the same recessive trait. The positions and are said to be within the same cistron when an organism that has the mutation at on one chromosome and has the mutation at position on the paired chromosome exhibits the recessive trait even though the organism is not homozygous for either mutation. When instead the wild type trait is expressed, the positions are said to belong to distinct cistrons / genes. For example, an operon is a stretch of DNA that is transcribed to create a contiguous segment of RNA, but contains more than one cistron / gene. The operon is said to be polycistronic, whereas ordinary genes are said to be monocistronic.

Definition of cistron in the English dictionary

The definition of cistron in the dictionary is the section of a chromosome that encodes a single polypeptide chain.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CISTRON


citron
ˈsɪtrən
copatron
kəʊˈpeɪtrən
dextran
ˈdɛkstrən
empatron
ɪmˈpeɪtrən
entoplastron
ˈɛntəʊˌplæstrən
epiplastron
ˌepɪˈplæstrən
hyoplastron
ˌhaɪəˈplæstrən
hypoplastron
ˌhaɪpəʊˈplæstrən
matron
ˈmeɪtrən
natron
ˈneɪtrən
patron
ˈpeɪtrən
plastron
ˈplæstrən
plectron
ˈplɛktrən
quercitron
ˈkwɜːsɪtrən
Sumatran
sʊˈmɑːtrən
xiphiplastron
ˌzɪfɪˈplæstrən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CISTRON

cispadane
cisplatin
cispontine
cissies
cissified
cissing
cissoid
cissus
cissy
cist
cistaceous
Cistercian
cistern
cisterna
cisternae
cisternal
cistic
cistronic
cistus
cistvaen

WORDS THAT END LIKE CISTRON

Accutron
betatron
biotron
cyclotron
digitron
electron
fast neutron
free electron
intron
klystron
magnetron
mellotron
negatron
neutron
periastron
photoelectron
positron
synchrotron
tevatron
tron

Synonyms and antonyms of cistron in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cistron» into 25 languages

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The translations of cistron from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cistron» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

顺反子
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cistrón
570 millions of speakers

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cistron
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cistron
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سيسترون؛ مفرون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

цистрон
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cistron
270 millions of speakers

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cistron
260 millions of speakers

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cistron
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cistron
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Translator English - German

cistron
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

シストロン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

시스 트론
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cistron
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cistron
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cistron
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कोस्टार्न
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sistronuna
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cistron
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cistron
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

цистрон
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cistron
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

cistron
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Cistron
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

cistron
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cistronet
5 millions of speakers

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CISTRON» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CISTRON»

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Ribosomes
The next coding sequence starts from AUG and is 390 nucleotides in length; this is the C cistron coding for coat protein. This cistron is terminated by UAA and followed by the second termination codon UAG. The C cistron is separated from the ...
Alexander S. Spirin, 1999
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Environmental Impact of Invertebrates for Biological Control ...
Organization of the ribosomal cistron consisting of the intergenic spacer, 18s rRNA gene, internal transcribed spacer 1, 5.8s rRNA gene, internal transcribed spacer 2 and the 28s rRNA gene. This ribosomal cistron is tandemly repeated ...
Franz Bigler, Dirk Babendreier, Ulli Kuhlmann, 2006
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Cell and Molecular Biology
Write short notes on : (i) position effect, (ii) pseudoalleles and complex loci, (iii) cis-irans effect, (iv) rll locus in T4 phage, (v) complementation test, (vi) recombination test, (vii) cistron, muton and recon. 27 Plasmids, IS Elements, Transposons ...
Gupta, 2009
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The Structure of Biological Science
Two mutations on one cistron cistron 1 cistron 2 interbreeding Two mutations on adjacent cistron cistron 1 cistron 2 interbreeding CIS-position of mutation trans- position of mutations cis-position trans-position normal phenotype abnormal ...
Alexander Rosenberg, 1985
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Genetics
In 1976 Barrell and his co-workers discovered that in 4>X174, having nine cistrons (A, B, C, D, E, J, F, G, H), cistron E is present between D and J and that the cistron E overlaps cistron D. This could be done by working out the nucleotide  ...
Prof. P.K. Gupta, 1988
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ADVANCES IN GENETICS
Turning to the oriented reading of the message, Crick et al. took advantage of the deletion 11589, which covers the adjoining right-hand end of the A cistron and left-hand end of the B cistron. In 11589 the A cistron activity is missing but, ...
Ernst W. Caspari, M. Demerec, J. M. Thoday, 1964
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The Molecular Biology of Viruses: Colter and Paranchych
Thus, a double mutant composed of 2 cell-killing mutations, kills the host cells; however, the double mutants containing a nonkilling, cistron 2, mutation do not kill. In sum, the cell growth and killing experiments show that if all phage cistrons  ...
John Colter, 1967
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Mammalian Cell Biotechnology in Protein Production
In these constructs the gene of interest is contained in the first cistron and a selectable marker gene or a screening marker gene comprises the second cistron (compare chapter 1.5). Screening for high expression of the second cistron ...
Hansjörg Hauser, Roland Wagner, 1997
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Molecular Biology: A Selection of Papers
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Sydney Brenner, 2012
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PROG NUCLEIC ACID RES&MOLECULAR BIO
punctuation permitting ribosomal attachment, or punctuation initiating translation of a new cistron utilizing previously attached ribosomes. In the second case, it is assumed that the only ribosomal attachment site is at the head of the first cistron ...
James Norman Davidson, Waldo E. Cohn, 1967

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CISTRON»

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The following two tables summarize the review histories for all approved applications submitted from fy 93 through fy 98 cistron buy amoxicillin ... «High Country Press, Jun 15»
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Zink g cistron the smallest unit of genetic material which is responsible for the synthesis of a specific polypeptide. more Vardenafil 20 Mg Cheap ... «High Country Press, Jun 15»
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Genetic Complementation of Hepatitis C Virus Nonstructural Protein …
Furthermore, expression of NS5A alone from an additional cistron within a replicon construct gave greater rescue of virion assembly in cis than in trans. «Journal of Virology, Feb 14»
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Obaid Siddiqi: Pioneering Neuroscientist, Molecular Biologist and …
These two studies were one of the first reports of fine mapping of a gene or cistron, as was the preferred terminology. Already acclaimed in ... «Sci-News.com, Jul 13»
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A simple method to generate stable cell lines for the analysis of …
It was placed upstream of the acceptor cDNA fusion as it has been shown to drive 7 to 10-fold greater expression of the second cistron (5). Thus the acceptor ... «BioTechniques.com, Apr 13»
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The Cult of Gene-centrism
I prefer the old term 'cistron' for this case, if only because that .... rather than what I rather call a 'cistron' ("all the DNA lying between a stop and a ... «Science 2.0, Oct 12»
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How to Enjoy Reading Shakespeare
As I was grappling with some of the more technical passages that contained words like allele, nucleotide, cistron, and mitosis, I was sometimes ... «Huffington Post, Apr 12»
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Does Gene Duplication Perform As Advertised?
The author notes that "[t]his presents a problem in terms of explaining any accretion of cistron size with reference to the most naturally ... «Discovery Institute, Jan 11»

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