OPERON

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("operon" is a kind of...):

deoxyribonucleic acid; desoxyribonucleic acid; DNA ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information)

Meronyms (parts of "operon"):

operator gene (a gene that activates the production of messenger RNA by adjacent structural genes)

regulator gene; regulatory gene (a gene that produces a repressor substance that inhibits an operator gene)

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