Question
What do you understand by operon. Name the first operon to be discovered?
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Answer
An operon is a part of genetic material (or DNA), which acts as a single regulated unit having one or more structural genes, an operator gene, a promoter gene, a regulator gene, a repressor and an inducer or co-repressor The first operon to be discovered was lac-operon.
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