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Meaning of polycistronic in English:

polycistronic

Pronunciation /ˌpɒlɪsɪsˈtrɒnɪk/

adjective

Biology

  • Comprising or derived from more than one cistron and so containing the information for more than one gene product.

Origin

1960s; earliest use found in Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology. From poly- + cistron + -ic.