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Model of the operon and its relation to the regulator gene.
How gene therapy can treat diseases
Gregor Mendel's discovery of heredity laws
What are chromosomes?
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Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Rudolf Jaenisch
German biologist
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
British biologist and writer
Fred H. Gage
American geneticist
Stephen J. Elledge
American geneticist
Ohsumi, Yoshinori
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Japanese biologist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
Oswald Avery.
Oswald Avery
American bacteriologist
Charles Yanofsky
American geneticist
Maclyn McCarty
American biologist
Theophilus Shickel Painter
American zoologist
Benzer, Seymour
Seymour Benzer
American scientist

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