Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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ISBN: 9781259700903
Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 8, Problem 15P
Charles Yanofsky isolated many different trpA- mutants (Fig. 8.3).
| a. | Explain how he could identify Trp- auxotrophs of E. coli using replica plating (recall Fig. 7.6). |
| b. | Assuming that the role of TrpA enzyme in the tryptophan biosynthesis pathway was known, explain how Yanofsky could have identified trpA- mutants among his trp- auxotrophs. (Hint: Recall Beadle and Tatum’s one gene, one enzyme experiments in Chapter 7.) |
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Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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