Usually means: Functional unit of genetic expression.
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  1. cistron: Merriam-Webster
  2. cistron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cistron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cistron: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cistron: Vocabulary.com
  6. cistron: Wiktionary
  7. cistron: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. cistron: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. cistron: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cistron: Dictionary.com
  11. Cistron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. cistron: Rhymezone
  13. cistron: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cistron: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. cistron: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cistron: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. cistron: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  5. cistron: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cistron)

noun:  The unit of hereditary material (e.g. DNA) that encodes one protein.

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