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What is an operon? Describe the major steps involved in operon regulation.​

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Answered by sriteja2780
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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

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