cistron
Example Sentences
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The race started as expected with Cistron going to the lead, which he held through the backstretch.
From Los Angeles Times
Cistron, a three-time winner for John Sadler, is the second favorite at 7-2.
From Los Angeles Times
Lindenmann decided to call the mysterious stuff interferon, a hybrid of "interference" and the suffix "on," which was in vogue among biologists, who were using such names as cistron, recon and muton to describe new genetic concepts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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