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Also Known As mutagenesis ‱ genetic mutation

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Diagram showing how point mutations, or single nucleotide changes in a codon, result in different amino acids in a protein. The central isoleucine codon (AUA) is surrounded by other codons, each differing by one nucleotide, with corresponding amino acid molecular structures and color-coded atoms.
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Alexander Gordon Bearn
British-born American physician and geneticist
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Evelyn M. Witkin
American geneticist
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Hermann Joseph Muller
American geneticist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
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Frances Arnold
American chemical engineer
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Edward L. Tatum
American biochemist
Benzer, Seymour
Seymour Benzer
American scientist