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Pollen from gladiolas, sometimes known as sword lilies, at 2500-times magnification.

Image by Dr. Shirley Owens, Michigan State University.

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION!

Every Sunday, a question will be asked about one of the images from the past week. Be the first to answer correctly, and your blog will be promoted on Monday’s image post and Biocanvas’s main site!

In honor of Nobel Prize week, what hypothesis arose from work on Neurospora crassa (bread mold) that resulted in a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?

Answer: The “one gene-one enzyme” hypothesis.

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Sunday, October 14th, 2012
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  8. theintimatecompanion answered: Beadle and Tatum won the prize in 1958 for hypothesizing that specific genes code for specific proteins.
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    Pollen from gladiolas, sometimes known as sword lilies, at 2500-times magnification.
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  16. mskatherineb answered: The idea for the first anti-biotic, Penicillin.