Define monocistronic

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Define monocistronic

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Cistron basically refers to the gene and this term was given by  Seymour Benzer. The term monocistronic and polycistronic refers to the single and more than one gene respectively. If we consider the example of an operon, the operons and genes are polycistronic and monocistronic respectively.

 

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