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OPERON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("operon" is a kind of...):
deoxyribonucleic acid; desoxyribonucleic acid; DNA ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information)
Meronyms (parts of "operon"):
operator gene (a gene that activates the production of messenger RNA by adjacent structural genes)
regulator gene; regulatory gene (a gene that produces a repressor substance that inhibits an operator gene)
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