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Q. Which organism was used by Beadle and Tatum to propose one gene - one enzyme hypothesis?

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The importance of genes in enzyme production first emerged through work on auxotrophic mutants of mould, Neurospora crassa by Beadle and Tatum (1941).
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The experiment revealed that m etabolism is controlled by genes.