"Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora" (1941), by George W. Beadle and Edward L. Tatum
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George Wells Beadle [7] and Edward Lawrie Tatum's 1941 article "Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora [8]" detailed their experiments on how genes [9] regulated chemical reactions, and how the chemical reactions in turn affected development in the organism. Beadle and Tatum experimented on Neurospora, a type of bread mold, and they concluded that mutations to genes [9] affected the enzymes of organisms, a result that biologists later generalized to proteins, not just enzymes. Beadle and Tatum's experiments provided an early link between genetics and the field of molecular biology.
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