The portion of DNA which contains information for an entire polypeptide is called

Operon

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Recon

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Muton

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Cistron

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Cistron

A part of one chain of DNA molecule known as sense strand which codes a polypeptide is called acistron. Each cistron consists of many codons, and a codon comprises three consecutive nitrogenous bases.

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