How does having genes in an operon help to maintain their products in equimolar amounts?

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may someone explain this to me in a simple way. thanks in advance!

Answer 1

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because all genes are in the same operon they will be translated/transcripted at the same time at the same quantity.. If you translate one you translate all of them, like that making sure you have equivalent amounts of the products

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Answer 2

An operator is a segment of DNA that a regulatory protein binds to. It is classically defined in the lac operon as a segment between the promoter and the genes of the operon. A repressor or activator can bind to an operator.

Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operon