EP 46 · 58:37

One gene, one enzyme

From America 250: The Breakthroughs That Built American Science — Part 1

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58:37>> Major major innovation 1941 the formulation of the one gene one enzyme hypothesis. Yes, this is George Beetle and Edward Tatum at Stanford University. Basically, we didn't know what genes were doing. Okay, maybe genes were doing bunch of things like there's genes that are messing with this and messing with this. Here, >> a single gene creates a single protein. That's the idea. >> It's the first sort of distillation of that >> 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine. No relation to Channing Tatum and no relation to Levi's genes. 1941 discovery

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    America 250: The Breakthroughs That Built American Science — Part 1

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