Question

15. What is cistron
a) Segment of DNA
(c) Segment of proteins
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(b) Segment of RNA
(d) an amino acid​

Answer 1

The answer of this question is A.

Explanation:

• A cistron was originally defined experimentally as a genetic complementation unit by using the cis/trans test.
• In early bacterial genetics a cistron denotes a structural gene.
• In other words, a coding sequence or segment of DNA encoding a polypeptide.
• Nowadays, the terms cistron and structural gene also include DNA sequences with a noncoding RNA as an end product.