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If you have an operon containing genes that code for proteins that will aid the cell...

  1. If you have an operon containing genes that code for proteins that will aid the cell in utilizing sucrose for energy, what type of operon is it?
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The sucrose operon will be identical to the lac operon because the first step in the utilisation of sucrose is to breakdown the sucrose to fructose and glucose. Hence it will be similar to that of lac operon as lactose also is a disaccharide and it breaks down into glucose and galactose. Hence the sucrose operon will be regulated in negative repressible way. The inducer here will be sucrose and it also will be positively controlled by the cAMP-CRP complex similar to that of the lac operon. The structural genes will be sucrase gene, proteins that aid in sucrose intake by cells and also a leaky sucrose or an analog of sucrose. Hence the type of operon that sucrose will be a negative repressible operon.

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