edward lawrie tatum
Definition
- Proper noun:
- Edward Lawrie Tatum: A United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975). He was a corecipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 for this groundbreaking work.
Usage
- Proper noun:
- Edward Lawrie Tatum is a key figure in the history of genetics.
- The research of Edward Lawrie Tatum helped establish the "one gene-one enzyme" hypothesis.
Advanced Usage
- "Tatum's experiments": Refers specifically to the series of experiments he conducted with George Beadle using the bread mold .
- Tatum's experiments provided crucial evidence for the link between genes and biochemical processes.
- "The work of Tatum and Beadle": A common phrase denoting their collaborative Nobel Prize-winning research.
- The work of Tatum and Beadle laid the foundation for molecular genetics.
Variants and Related Words
- Tatum (n): A common shorthand reference to Edward Lawrie Tatum in academic and historical contexts.
- Tatum shared the Nobel Prize with George Beadle and Joshua Lederberg.
- Beadle and Tatum (n): The last names used together to refer to the collaborative duo and their famous experiments.
- The Beadle and Tatum experiments are a classic study in biology textbooks.
Synonyms
- Biochemist: A scientist specializing in the chemistry of living organisms.
- Geneticist: A biologist who studies genes and heredity (though his primary training was in biochemistry, his work is foundational to genetics).
Related Phrases
- "One gene-one enzyme hypothesis": The hypothesis, largely proven by the work of Beadle and Tatum, that each gene controls the production of a specific enzyme.
- Edward Lawrie Tatum's research was instrumental in supporting the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis.
Noun
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United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975)
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