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  • On the other side of the Atlantic, George Beadle and Edward Tatum, working with cultures of Neurospora crassa, codified the latter connection into the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis.

    Gene Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg 2009

  • Around the same time, Alfred Kühn and his group, as well as Boris Ephrussi with George Beadle, were able to open a window on the space between the gene and its presumed physiological function by transplanting organs between mutant and wild type insects.

    Gene Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg 2009

  • Recently—some sixty-five years after George Beadle and Edward Tatum proposed the classic definition of a gene as a region of DNA that codes for an enzyme—an issue of the journal Nature ran a feature with the remarkable title “What Is a Gene?”

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • Recently—some sixty-five years after George Beadle and Edward Tatum proposed the classic definition of a gene as a region of DNA that codes for an enzyme—an issue of the journal Nature ran a feature with the remarkable title “What Is a Gene?”

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • Recently—some sixty-five years after George Beadle and Edward Tatum proposed the classic definition of a gene as a region of DNA that codes for an enzyme—an issue of the journal Nature ran a feature with the remarkable title “What Is a Gene?”

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • Recently—some sixty-five years after George Beadle and Edward Tatum proposed the classic definition of a gene as a region of DNA that codes for an enzyme—an issue of the journal Nature ran a feature with the remarkable title “What Is a Gene?”

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • The famous botanist George Beadle created a facsimile of an ear of an early domesticated corn

    WUSTL Record: University News 2010

  • Tatum was an American biochemist who discovered with another American geneticist, George Beadle, that chemical processes in organisms are controlled by the organism's genes.

    About.com Chemistry 2009

  • George Beadle, Thomas Morgan’s student, switched from Morgan’s fruit flies to an even more primitive organism, the slime mold, to answer these questions.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • George Beadle, Thomas Morgan’s student, switched from Morgan’s fruit flies to an even more primitive organism, the slime mold, to answer these questions.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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