Protection Mechanism IV: genetic

What will be an ideal response?


•Nitrogenase production has multiple environmental checks.
•When [NH4] is low, nitrogenase operon get turned on in a two-step process.
•When [NH4] is high, nif genes do not get transcribed.
•When [O2] is high, NifA gets complexed and nitrogenase operon is turned off.

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