1. Cistron: The smallest piece of DNA that makes a protein is called a cistron. It carries almost the same meaning as jinn. A cistron contains multiple recons and mutons. Hence the length of cistron is much greater than the length of ricin and muton. A cistron of E. coli bacteria consists of about 1500 pairs of nucleotides.
2. Muton: The smallest piece of DNA that causes mutation is called muton. It is made up of one or two pairs of nucleotides.
3. Recon: The smallest piece of DNA that causes recombination is called Recon. It is made up of one or two pairs of nucleotides.
4. Replicon: The smallest piece of DNA that replicates is called a replicon.
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