Question

6) Design an Operon: Design a hypothetical bacterial operon that can metabolize paper, oil, or tar.

* It will exclusively turn on a paper -metabolizing pathway when all three (paper, oil and tar) are available.

* It will turn on oil and tar-metabolizing pathways when no paper is available.

* Mutant Y always produces all metabolic genes no matter which metabolites are available.

* Mutant X turns on only a tar-metabolizing pathway when all three (paper, oil and tar) are available.

* Mutant Z fails to turn on any metabolizing pathway independent of paper , oil and tar presence. The mutation, however, is not in the catalytic pathway components.

*INSTRUCTIONS: Do NOT write SENTENCES!!!! ONLY draw and use arrows/bullet points to explain the design. Provide a graphical glossary of the genetic components that you used. BE CREATIVE but make sure that they follow the laws of genetics! Make sure the diagram is NEAT and CLEAR!!!!!

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