2: Bacteria
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- 2.5: Gene and Operon
- The entire nucleic acid sequence that is necessary for the synthesis of a functional polypeptide or RNA molecule. Thus, a gene contains additional sequence information beyond that which codes for the amino acids in a protein or the nucleotides in an RNA molecule. The gene also contains the DNA necessary to get a particular transcript made.