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OPERATOR GENE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A gene that activates the production of messenger RNA by adjacent structural genes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("operator gene" is a kind of...):
cistron; factor; gene ((genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity)
Holonyms ("operator gene" is a part of...):
operon (a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene)
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