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structural gene

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noun Genetics.
cistron.
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Origin of structural gene

First recorded in 1955–60

Words nearby structural gene

struck measure, structural, structural anthropology, structural formula, structural functionalism, structural gene, structural geology, structural iron, structuralism, structural isomer, structuralize
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Words related to structural gene

cistron, regulatory gene
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