A bacterial operon _.
A) contains information for more than one protein product
B) is capped at the 5' end and carries a poly -A tail at the 3' end
C) is void of start (AUG) and termination (UAA, UGA, UAG) triplets
D) contains information for one protein product
E) None of the answers listed is correct.

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An operon is a cluster of genes under the control of a single promoter and is transcribed into a single mRNA molecule that can encode multiple proteins, hence containing information for more than one protein product.

A Bacterial Operon _