scripton

Noun

1. 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.
   • Approximately by 10-15 min after infection, the protein tof turns on the transcription of the scripton L2. - 1983, Klaus Bellmann, Molecular genetic information systems: modelling and simulation, page 86:
   • In the biological dose range, the major effects of UV irradiation on transcription are results of and are in direct correlation to the residual scripton length. - 2013, John T. Lett, Howard Adler, Advances in Radiation...
   • That segment of DNA, which is bounded on the codogenic strand by a promotor and in the 5' direction from the promotor by a terminator, defines a scripton. A scripton beginning with a given promotor may vary in length...
2. An unbroken sequence of textons within a hypertext or other dynamic text as it appears to the reader.
   • If you manage to pick it up, you might read "You steal the lamp. Unfortunately, it is just a piece of useless junk./Taken." (If there is no message programed by the lamp's maker, you will just see the scripton "Taken.")...
   • The reader has the choice to read the whole scripton or only parts of it before following a link. As a consequence, scriptons are not necessarily identical to what readers actually read, but what an ideal reader would...
   • First of all, reading the whole text is the strongest literary convention, but as was implicit in the earlier discussion, it can now mean at least four slightly different things: reading every texton and scripton,...