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A) In permissive conditions the toxin is repressed. The antitoxin is expressed at a constitutive low level to accommodate for any leaky expression of the toxin. B) Upon a change of environment to non-permissive conditions the repression is lifted and toxin expression increases. The low level of antitoxin expression is no longer capable of preventing a lethal level of free toxic
