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1 ) What are the two levels within which metabolic control can occur in bacteria?
5 ) How does a repressor work? What kind of gene encodes a repressor protein? 6 ) How is the trp repressor protein an allosteric protein? 7 ) Briefly, what is the key difference between a repressible operon and an inducible operon?
8 ) Why is the trp operon considered REPRESSIBLE? 9 ) Why is the lac operon considered INDUCIBLE? 10 ) Why are repressible enzymes generally associated with anabolic pathways and how is this an advantage to the organism? 11 ) Why are inducible enzymes generally associated with catabolic pathways and how is this an advantage to the organism? 12 ) How does positive gene regulation work? 13 ) Explain why it is said that the lac operon “has both an on-off switch and a volume control.”