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#Question id: 2666


A cell does not want to waste energy synthesizing the amino acid arginine if arginine is present in its diet. Therefore, when arginine is present, it activates a repressor protein to prevent transcription of genes that code for enzyme to make arginine. This is an example of what type of regulation?

#XL - T Zoology
  1. positive

  2. negative-repressible

  3. negative-inducible

  4. attenuation