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What does monocistronic mean?


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Monocistronic:

  1. Cistrons are segments of genetic material (RNA or DNA) that code for a functional protein.
  2. Monocistronic means one cistron in a transcription unit, i.e. it contains only one structural gene, coding for a single polypeptide chain.
  3. Each gene contains a separate promoter region, e.g. in most eukaryotic cells.

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