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Commonplace Notes

Title:: Commonplace Notes
Creator:: Lederberg, Joshua
Date:: 5 July 1945
Location:: Box: 2. Folder: 35
Rights:: Public Domain
Genre:: Notes
Format:: Text
Extent:: 14 pages
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: BBAFFH
NLM ID:: 101584906X3479
Profiles Collection:: The Joshua Lederberg Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X3479
Annotation:: Author: Joshua Lederberg. Date Written: November 29, 1998. KW: recombination; commonplace book;**; The note dated July 5 1945 is one of the earliest allusions to the concept of the E. coli crossing experiment. There are many other divers remarks about mutation and heterokaryosis in Neurospora. Some of these are inspired by the Beadle Coonradt paper in Genetics, and by Beadle's Harvey lecture on 2/15/45. jl 10/3/98
Story Section:: The Development of Bacterial Genetics
Lederberg Grouping:: NONE. No Epoch.