Edward Lawrie Tatum
Edward Lawrie Tatum
Edward Lawrie Tatumwas an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth14 December 1909
CountryUnited States of America
numbers enzymes function
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.
mutation culture roles
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.