Refer to the accompanying figure. The structure labeled as 7 in the figure of the tryptophan operon is a(n):

a. active repressor protein.
b. inactive repressor protein.
c. active RNA polymerase.
d. inactive RNA polymerase.
e. ribosome.


b

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