Edward Lawrie Tatum Quotes

United States, Scientist
December 14, 1909 – November, 5, 1975.

Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was 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.

The concepts of biochemical genetics have already been, and will undoubtedly continue to be, significant in broader areas of biology.

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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.

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This was before the universality of need for the B vitamins, and the enzymatic basis of this requirement, had been clearly defined.

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That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin.

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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.

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Children who have been silenced often enough learn not to talk about race publicly. Their questions don’t go away, they just go unasked.

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