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Model of the operon and its relation to the regulator gene.
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Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
British biologist and writer
Rudolf Jaenisch
German biologist
Fred H. Gage
American geneticist
Stephen J. Elledge
American geneticist
Ohsumi, Yoshinori
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Japanese biologist
Oswald Avery.
Oswald Avery
American bacteriologist
Charles Yanofsky
American geneticist
Maclyn McCarty
American biologist
Benzer, Seymour
Seymour Benzer
American scientist
Theophilus Shickel Painter
American zoologist

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