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  4. Beadle and Tatum showed that each kind of mutant bread mould they studied lacked a specific enzyme. Their experiments demonstrated that

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Q. Beadle and Tatum showed that each kind of mutant bread mould they studied lacked a specific enzyme. Their experiments demonstrated that

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Beadle and Tatum proposed their one gene one enzyme hypothesis on the basis of biochemical genetics in Neurospora crassa. Beadle and Tatum showed that each kind of mutant bread mould lacke a specific enzyme. Their experiments demonstrated that genes carry information for making proteins.