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Grade 12th passZoology

What is difference betwewn gene and cistron? If its similar what makes them similar?

Profile image of Vignesh vijayakumar
8 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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Profile image of Simran Vinaik
8 Years ago
A gene is a part of DNA that gets transcribed into an RNA( mRNA, tRNA, rRNA or any other form of rna).

Cistron is a part of mRNA that begins with a start codon, ends with a stop codon and in between these codons lies the series of codon which code for a single polypeptide