What characteristic of the light-producing regulatory circuit is consistent with the idea that it may be a regulon? What characteristic of this circuit stretches the definition for a regulon?

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Hello everyone. Here's our next question. It says the blank opteron encodes genes responsible for the self regulation and the production of proteins associated with light production or luminescence. Our choices are a lack B lux C. Trip or D sigma. We're thinking about the opera on for genes involved in luminescence that's going to be the choice. Be the lux opera on lux is latin for light. That's why that's the name there. But let's just look through our other choices. Um So we understand why they're not correct choice. A The lack opera is the operation for genes in bacteria that allow the bacteria to metabolize lactose. Thus its name allowing table is um of lack tous okay so that's obviously not our answer there. And the trip opteron is also in bacteria opera. And for genes involved in the synthesis of the amino acid tryptophan and then finally sigma assume it's related to the sigma factor. That's a general transcription factor and bacteria. Oops. And it enables specific binding of RNA polymerase two gene promoters. So this is not for a specific set of genes. Um You need this too involved in all the synthesis of all genes in bacteria because it allows RNA polymerase to bind to the gene promoters of any gene. So that's not a specific protein that is involved in the transcription of. So that's why choice D is not correct. So again, the opera that encodes genes responsible for self regulation and production of proteins associated with light production or luminescence Is choice be the lux opera. See you in the next video