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lac operon

Summary

lac operon is an operon[1]. It draws 292 Wikipedia views per month (operon category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • lac operon's image is recorded as Lac Operon.svg[3].
  • lac operon's image is recorded as Lac operon-2010-21-01.png[4].
  • lac operon's image is recorded as Lac complementation.png[5].
  • lac operon's instance of is recorded as operon[6].
  • lac operon's Commons category is recorded as Lac operon[7].
  • lac operon's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D007763[8].
  • lac operon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02jjmq[9].
  • lac operon's MeSH tree code is recorded as G05.360.340.024.686.545[10].
  • lac operon's MeSH tree code is recorded as G05.360.340.358.207.500.545[11].
  • lac operon's found in taxon is recorded as prokaryotes[12].
  • lac operon's length is recorded as {'unit': 'Q145911', 'amount': '+5300'}[13].
  • lac operon's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as lac-operon[14].
  • lac operon's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 170344550[15].
  • lac operon's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2908647705[16].
  • lac operon's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C170344550[17].

Why It Matters

lac operon draws 292 Wikipedia views per month (operon category, ranking #1 of 3).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). lac operon. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/lac-operon
MLA “lac operon.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/lac-operon.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_lac-operon_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{lac operon}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/lac-operon}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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