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The presence of a mutant lac repressor that could not bind lactose would result in _______ transcription even when lactose was present because the mutant repressor would remain bound to the la

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Result in the lac repressor not being able to bind to the enzyme causing the RNA polymerase to transcribe the lac gene.In the presence of lactose, the Lac gene is expressed and the enzyme binds to repressor protein.
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