In a breakthrough that will immediately benefit biologists who study bacteria, and could in the future have bearing on the advancement of synthetic biology, a team of researchers has determined the ...
New research suggests a possible explanation for the organization of operons, jointly controlled clusters of genes that evolved in bacterial chromosomes. Operons, which are found in the chromosomes of ...
Operons were first described 4 in prokaryotes — small, single-celled organisms without a nucleus. In these organisms, genes needed for one particular process (say, synthesis of an amino acid) are ...