In Order to Analyze How Different Components of the Lac

question 47

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In order to analyze how different components of the lac operon work, scientists created special strains of E. coli, called partial diploids. A partial diploid has one full copy of the lac operon in the bacterial chromosome plus another copy of the lac operon in a plasmid. Hence, for the lac operon (and only the lac operon) the bacterial cell is a diploid. Below is one possible genotype of a partial diploid. The genotype written to the left of the slash (/) is that of the lac operon in the bacterial chromosome, and the genotype written to the right of the slash is that of the lac operon in the plasmid. I^- P⁺ O⁺ Z⁺/ I⁺ P^- O⁺ Z^-
Under what conditions regarding the presence or absence of lactose (and the actual inducer allolactose that accompanies lactose) would the partial diploid produce functional -galactosidase?

• A)  -galactosidase is produced whether lactose is present or absent.
• B)  -galactosidase is not produced whether lactose is present or absent.
• C)  -galactosidase is produced when lactose is present but is not produced when lactose is absent.
• D)  -galactosidase is not produced when lactose is present but is produced when lactose is absent.

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