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Contracted form of mutation + -on, coined by American molecular biologist Seymour Benzer in 1957 as "he unit of mutation defined as the smallest element that, when altered, can give rise to a mutant form of the organism."
^ Seymour Benzer (1957) “The elementary units of heredity”, in McElroy WD, Glass B, editors, The Chemical Basis of Heredity, Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins Press, page 71
