Chapter 11, Problem 13IMT

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The major theme among the relationship of structure to function, information flow, pathways that transform energy and matter, interactions within biological system and evolution, which is evident and related with statement “changing the shape of lac repressor affects how the repressor acts”.

Introduction:

An operon is a functioning unit of genomic DNA containing a cluster of genes under the control of a single promoter. Operon occurs primarily in prokaryotes but also in some eukaryotes, it made up of several structural genes arranged under a common promoter and regulated by common operator.