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BENZER, Seymour (1921 – 2007)

BENZER, Seymour (1921 – 2007)

1921 – 2007

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Harris WA · Seymour Benzer 1921–2007 The Man Who Took Us from Genes to Behaviour Harris WA PLoS Biology Vol. 6, No. 2, e41 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060041 . Available online at biology.plosjournals.org · CC BY 2.5

1959 CE

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On the topology of the genetic fine structure.

Benzer developed "the T4 rII system, a new genetic technique involving recombination in T4 bacteriophage rII mutants. After observing that a particular rII mutant, a mutation that caused the bacteriophage to eliminate…