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KCET · BIOLOGY · STD 12 - 5. Molecular Basis of Inheritance

When Escherichia coli cells are cultured in a medium where Lactose is absent, the 'i' gene of Lac Operon continues to produce repressor mRNA, because it is

  1. A a structural gene
  2. B a non-coding gene
  3. C an operator gene
  4. D a constitutive gene
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(D) a constitutive gene

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(D) a constitutive gene,
The lac operon consists of one regulatory gene (the i gene - it is a constitutive gene, here the term i does not refer to inducer, rather it is derived from the world inhibitor) and three structural genes (z, y and a).