English
scripton
From script + -on.
Formed from script + -on
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
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Latin scrībō ‘to write’
Latin scrīptum ‘something written’
Old French escrit ‘writing(s)’
Middle English scrit ‘writing; document’
English script
Today it means
noun A segment of DNA or RNA that is under the control of a single autonomous promotor. A single scripton may encode multiple cistrons involving separate terminators.
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