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Question 1

What kind of operon is lactose operon?

Answer 1

Inducible operon

Question 2

Effect of glucose presence in the medium on content of bacteria?

Answer 2

cAMP content: decreases it
Lactose operon: decreases it

Question 3

Protein binding cAMP during lactose operon regulation?

Answer 3

CAP

Question 4

DNA region in lactose operon binding repressor?

Answer 4

Operator

Question 5

Role of lactose in regulation of lactose operon?

Answer 5

Inducer substance

Question 6

Metabolic processes regulated by inducible operon?

Answer 6

Breakdown processes

Question 7

What kind of operon is bacterial tryptophan operon?

Answer 7

Repressible operon

Question 8

Role of tryptophan in tryptophan operon regulation?

Answer 8

Co-repressor

Question 9

What does tryptophan bind to during regulation of tryptophan operon?

Answer 9

To the repressor

Question 10

How does the presence of tryptophan affect the activity of the tryptophan operon?

Answer 10

decreases it

Question 11

What kind of metabolic processes are regulated by repressible operons?

Answer 11

biosynthetic processes