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Operon

What is it? A set of adjacent structural genes in bacteria whose mRNA is synthesized in one piece, together with the adjacent regulatory signals that affect transcription of the structural genes. A sequence of adjacent bacterial genes all under the transcriptional control of the same operator.

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