Talk:Operon

message: I have decided to make considerable improvement to this article. Expect significant revision and additions to this page by May 14th. This includes all suggested revisions and information regarding the specific components and mutation of operons. 
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.139.241.181 (talk) 01:06, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvement 

message: There appears to be no way to italicise the lac in the link to lac operon. Anyone know how to do it? It comes out as lac operon. Also remember that in prokaryotic genetics, cistron/operon names are italicised and always start in lower case. The protein product always starts in upper case and is not italicised. So lac Z is the cistron and LacZ is the protein.--Alun 05:48, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: ''lac'' operon.

message: The OED online defines an operon as specific to prokaryotes. I recall that operons are specific to prokaryotes, though my memory is far from perfect. I am assuming the OED is correct. What is the general opinion.--Alun 07:38, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Prokaryotes

message: I am confused by this definition, and im not sure its correct... What is meant by structural genes? Genes which produce structural proteins? - Zephyris Talk 12:29, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Structural genes

message: I think this page needs a bit of reorganization. I'm not really qualified, but I may be next year. If it hasn't been done by then, I'll attempt it.
It would be better if the contents of the article were more hierarchical. I'll meditate some more on how exactly to accomplish that. --aciel 22:27, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganization 

message: I wish someone made a good image of attenuation (trp operon) . it would be so much easier to understand it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.68.181.184 (talk) 20:47, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attenuation 

message: I'm revamping the article, trying to put some more beef on it, and to make it more user-friendly. I need some advice on a few points. First among them: the opening line to the article states that operons are encoded in found DNA. Since operons also occur in viruses, where the genomic material is RNA, what would you guys think of me changing DNA to "genomic material", as in "operones are a length of code in the genomic material of an organism"? Shiningheart (talk) 13:19, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds very sensible.  The term "genomic material" is uncommon; I'd suggest "genetic material", which still admits DNA or RNA.  One question though – are you sure there are RNA viruses with operons?  Not all viruses have RNA genomes. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 13:39, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

text: Yeah, keep it inclusive unless we can be sure there are no operons in RNA viruses. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 14:40, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  DNA, RNA or Genetic Material? 

message: The article states that rRNA genes often exist in operons, and then it says that an operon is transcribed into single mRNA. This is not the only one article on Wikipedia where authors seem to think that there is no other RNA than mRNA, which results in absurd statements like the one I mentioned above. Guys, majority of transcription in cells produces ribosomal and not messenger RNA! Please, correct this asap. 62.121.66.29 (talk) 11:18, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not all RNAs are mRNAs!