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Lactose, as many people know, is not always easy to digest.
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However, there are certain organisms like e.
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Coli that can digest it very well, but they need certain systems in place in order to do that.
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One of those very important systems is the lac operon.
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Now, real quickly, we're going to talk about what is a lac operon or specifically an operon.
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Operon is going to be a system in the genetics of viruses or bacteria that regulates the genes responsible for certain protein synthesis.
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Now, the lac operon is specifically doing this for lactose metabolism in organisms like e.
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Coli.
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For the lac operon to operate, fun time to say that, it needs two regulators.
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Those two regulators are the lac repressor and the catabolite activator, or we'll just call it cap for short.
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Now, cap is responsible for monitoring glucose levels because glucose is the favorite meal of the e.
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Coli.
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It would rather have glucose...