Norton David Zinder
Norton David Zinder
1928-
American geneticist who, while working with Joshua Lederberg, discovered the phenomenon known as transduction, by which genetic information can be transferred from one bacterial strain to another by certain carrier viruses called bacteriophages. Bacteria infected in this way acquire new hereditary characteristics, such as drug resistance. Zinder and Lederberg published their landmark paper on genetic exchange in Salmonella in 1952. Zinder and Lederberg had developed an important technique for the rapid isolation of metabolic mutants of Eschericia coli.
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BORN: 1910, Paris, France
DIED: 1986, Paris, France
NATIONALITY: French
GENRE: Drama, Fiction, Poetry
MAJOR WORKS:
The Condemned Man (194… Genetic Screening , The scientific procedure of examining genetic makeup to determine if an individual possesses genetic traits that indicate a tendency toward acquiring… Genetic Erosion , genetic erosion The loss of genetic information that occurs when highly adaptable cultivars are developed and threaten the survival of their more loc…
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