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A Mutation Occurs in the Operator Region of the Lac

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A mutation occurs in the operator region of the lac operon of E. coli, and the repressor protein is unable to bind. Which of the following would occur?


A) Synthesis of the repressor protein would stop.
B) Lactose would not enter the cell.
C) The promoter region would be transcribed.
D) The genes from the lac operon would not be transcribed.
E) Structural genes would be continuously transcribed.

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