Beadle and Tatum used nutritional mutants called ____ to study the relationship between genes and proteins in

Neurospora.



a. transposons
b. chaperones
c. polysomes
d. auxotrophs
e. wild types


ANSWER: d

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Identical gene loci are located on ____________________. Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s)

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What will be an ideal response?

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