Operon used in a sentence

Operon in a sentence as a noun

For example, it needs to be part of an operon [5] that is a much bigger ADN sequence.

I've seen people who didn't know what a lac operon was get a PhD in biochemistry.

The classic example of this is the Lac operon, which is taught even in medical school.

Mycoplasma detection was achieved by amplifying the highly conserved 16S rRNA operon coding region of the mycoplasma genome.

Another possibility: the bacteria could be engineered to switch to a different metabolic mechansim, like the use of the lac operon to digest lactose instead of glucose whenever there's a scarcity of glucose.

The main message I got from talking to people involved in systems biology is that we don't even get qualitative agreement between simulation and experiment, nevermind any sort of quantitative data, on extremely well studied systems like the lac operon.