What is an operon? Describe the major steps involved in operon regulation.
Answers
Answered by
8
Explanation:
An Operon is a unit of bacterial gene expression and regulation, which includes structural genes and regulatory sequences recognized by regulatory gene products. All the genes in an operon are expressed as a single unit. A single promoter is required to initiate and regulate transcription of all structural genes.
An operon consist of regulatory elements and (protein or RNA) encoding structural genes. Example :-
1- Lactose(lac) operon
2- tryptophan (trp) operon
Similar questions