Explain how the lac operon is regulated, including all negative and positive components of regulation.

Explanation:

Three enzymes for lactose metabolism are grouped in the lac operon: lacZ (β-galactosidase), lacY (permease) and lacA (trans-acetylase). The transcription of this operon occurs only when lactose is available to digest, presumably to avoid wasting energy.  Apart from these protein-coding genes we have P(promoter), O(operator and CBS(Cap-binding site), sequences that work as binding sites for transcriptional regulation.

Negative components: An important regulator is lacI when four of these molecules assemble they form a repressor, this will bind to the promoter, this won't allow the operon to be transcribed as long as the operator is occupied by a repressor. LacI can also prevent lactose to bind to the operator by binding with it and changing its shape.

Positive components: cAMP binding protein is another molecule that when is bound to CBS improves the chance of RNA polymerase to bind to the promoter to initiate transcription.

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hey, i believe your answer would be d. sugar ribose and the base uracil. i believe this is the answer, because rna consists of sugar ribose, adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil.

your first option is incorrect, because that's dna. where it consists of sugar deoxyribose, adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine.

your second option is also incorrect, this is because sugar deoxyribose is in dna, and uracil is in rna. these two do not make sense together.

your third option being incorrect, because sugar ribose is in rna, but not the base of thymine. rna consists of uracil, not thymine.

lastly your fourth option being correct! this answer is correct, because both sugar ribose, and the base uracil are in rna! ~

answer is d. sugar ribose and the base uracil.