How does the lactose repressor block transcription of the lactose operon?

a. by "turning off" the appropriate genes in the intron
b. by regulating the activity of the enzymes that the operon codes for
c. by binding allosterically to the appropriate genes
d. by slowing the uptake of lactose into the cell
e. by binding to the operator


E

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