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The trp operon is constitutive and remains ON by default, whereas the lac operon is repressible and therefore is OFF by default.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Therefore it is ON by default whereas the lac operon is repressible and is OFF by default.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

There is nothing more banal, and nothing less repressible, than noting when horrific real-world events resemble movies.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2014

Baden-Baden received the Mayor with flags and cheering, despite the immediate outcropping of his ir- repressible tendency to jest�this time a decision that the town "ought to be called Good & Gooder."

From Time Magazine Archive

The young man's heart beat for a moment with repressible excitement.

From From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Alger, Horatio