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Chapter 30, Problem 14TYK
Design an Experiment Experiments on the orange bread mold Neurosporacrassa, an ascomycete, were pivotal in elucidating the concept that each gene encodes a single enzyme. As N. crassa ascospores arise through meiosis and then mitosis in an ascus, each ascospore occupies a particular position in the final string of eight spores the ascus contains:
This quirk of ascospore development was extremely useful to early geneticists, because it vastly simplified the task of figuring out which alleles ended up in particular ascospores following meiosis. Recalling genetics topics discussed in Chapter 11, why was the analysis easier?
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