Terms Related to rRNA Operon

• Operon

  The genetic unit consisting of a feedback system under the control of an operator gene, in which a structural gene transcribes its message in the ...

• Lac Repressors

  Proteins which are normally bound to the operator locus of an operon, thereby preventing transcription of the structural genes. In enzyme induction, the substrate of ...

• Operators

  Regulatory elements of an operon to which activators or repressors bind to effect the transcription of genes in the operon.