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Cistron vs Codon - What's the difference?

cistron | codon |

As nouns the difference between cistron and codon

is that cistron is sometimes used interchangeably with the word gene, a cistron is the unit of hereditary material (e.g. DNA) that encodes one protein while codon is a sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis, or translation. Three special codons, called "stop codons," signal protein synthesis to terminate.

cistron

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Sometimes used interchangeably with the word gene, a cistron is the unit of hereditary material (e.g. DNA) that encodes one protein.
  • Anagrams

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    codon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia codon)
  • (biochemistry) A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis, or translation. Three special codons, called "stop codons," signal protein synthesis to terminate.
  • Hyponyms

    * anticodon * stop codon * start codon

    Meronyms

    * nucleotide

    Anagrams

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