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Who proposed the concept of one gene = one protein and how was it disproved?

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Proposed by Beadle and Tatum 1941 and was disproved as Hb is transcribed by 2 genes

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What is Aspergillus nidulans?

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This is an important model organism

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How was the one gene = one polypeptide theory disproved?

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Not all genes are expressed as protein for example rRNA.

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Think of three things which describe the reading frame

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Degenerate
Triplet
Universal
Non-overlapping