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metagon Biol.|ˈmɛtəgɒn|
[f. meta- + Gr. γόν-ος offspring.]
(See quot. 1968.)
1962Gibson & Beale in Genetical Res. III. 25 As a provisional hypothesis..we proposed that the cytoplasm of mate-killer paramecia contained, in addition to the visible mu particles, certain other factors, here denoted ‘metagons’, which are assumed to be formed only in the presence of one or other of the genes M1 and M2. 1964New Scientist 6 Aug. 322/2 Particles of RNA called ‘metagons’. 1968R. Rieger Gloss. Genetics & Cytogenetics 285 Metagon, presumably, a primary, gene-initiated product in Paramecium which is RNA (complementary to the DNA of a specific gene) in nature, conditionally stable, infectious (capable of transmission from one Paramecium to another through the cytoplasm and the external medium), and capable of replication under certain conditions. |