which part of an operon acts as the on or off switch?
Install batteries in the charging case (with adult supervision), and plug the small cable in the side of the copter. Turn the switch on the case on. The switch should be flashing red. When charging is complete, it will flash green. NOTE: charging takes awhile. About 30 minutes to an hour from my knowledge
How it acts
How a wild animal acts
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The switch.
explain the regulation of gene expression in lac operon.
allolactose acts as an inducer
Repressors
The molecule that typically causes transcription of an operon is an inducer, which can either activate or repress the operon by binding to a regulatory protein. In the case of an inducible operon like the lac operon in E. coli, lactose acts as an inducer by binding to the repressor protein and preventing it from blocking transcription.
The lac operon is shut off when lactose is absent. In the absence of lactose, the repressor protein binds to the operator site, preventing transcription of the lac operon genes.
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The lac operon is turned on when lactose is present in the environment and glucose is scarce. This leads to the activation of the lac repressor protein, allowing the expression of genes involved in lactose metabolism. The lac operon is turned off when lactose is absent or glucose is abundant, which prevents the unnecessary expression of these genes.
A repressible operon is a type of operon in bacteria where gene expression is usually active but can be turned off when a specific corepressor molecule binds to the repressor protein. This binding causes the repressor to bind to the operator region of the operon, blocking transcription and thus shutting down gene expression. An example of a repressible operon is the trp operon in E. coli, which is involved in tryptophan biosynthesis.
The tryptophan operon is turned off in the presence of tryptophan because tryptophan acts as a corepressor. When tryptophan levels are high, it binds to the trp repressor protein. This trp-repressor complex then binds to the operator region of the operon, preventing RNA polymerase from transcribing the genes involved in tryptophan synthesis.
switch
The corepressor tryptophan itself binds to the repressor protein, causing a conformational change that allows it to bind to the operator sequence of the tryptophan operon. This blocks RNA polymerase from transcribing the operon, leading to repression of tryptophan biosynthesis.
regulated by the availability of tryptophan. When tryptophan levels are high, tryptophan acts as a corepressor, binding to the repressor protein, which then binds to the operator, preventing gene transcription. This allows bacteria to conserve energy by only producing tryptophan when needed.