Multiple choice

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

  1. cistron

  2. muton

  3. recon

  4. operon

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Explanation

A cistron is defined as the segment of DNA that contains the complete genetic information required to synthesize one polypeptide chain or functional RNA. Muton is the smallest mutable unit, recon is the smallest recombinable unit, and operon is a cluster of functionally related genes.