English â in english the word dandelion also means âlion toothâ. Also, some people also call it the âmonk headâ. You donât have to be religious to have this dandelion tattoo. Altough for some people it has religious meanings, for other it doesnât have the same meaning.
Operon: A set of genes transcribed under the control of an operator gene. More specifically, an operon is a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes, an operator gene, and a regulatory gene.
The lac operon, an inducible operon, is a mechanism used by bacterial cells as an economical means to restrict the expression of the structural genes necessary for metabolizing lactose, a disaccharide. These structural genes break down lactose when lactose is the best carbon source available within its environs.